Here are the biggest SpaceX winners from Elon Musks bestie to a former $28-an-hour welder from Mexico

SpaceX’s historic public debut is set to mint billions of dollars for Elon Musk’s close friends and longtime backers – even as it creates a new class of millionaires among rank-and-file SpaceX workers.Among the latter is Juan Hernandez, a former SpaceX welder who took a $28-an-hour job with the company in 2015 after immigrating from Mexico – and who now is poised to rake in $880,000 from Friday’s IPO at $135 a share, according to the Wall Street Journal.With the stock trading north of $170 as of Friday afternoon, 42-year-old Hernandez’s stake was worth north of $1 million.“I didn’t even know what SpaceX was when my friend was talking about it” in the 2010s, Hernandez told the paper.On the other end of the spectrum, Antonio Gracias, Musk’s 55-year-old close friend and a longtime Tesla investor, was poised to rake in a jaw-dropping $68 billion, with his firm Valor Equity Partners being SpaceX’s second-largest shareholder. Shares of SpaceX opened at $150 each on their first day of trading Friday in the largest IPO ever.They quickly rocketed as high as $170, raising the company’s market cap above $2.1 trillion – and instantly crowning Musk as the world’s first trillionaire.Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund was one of the earliest investors in SpaceX, plowing $600 million into the company in 2008.

Now, that slug is worth $50 billion.Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz’s venture capital firm’s stake is now worth more than $10 billion, while Sequoia Capital’s is valued at $20 billion.But the IPO is also expected to transform more than 4,400 current and former SpaceX employees into overnight millionaires – with about 400 expected to earn $100 million or more, according to an analysis by Hill.com earlier reported by the New York Times.Few SpaceX employees embody the company’s meteoric rise better than Trevor Hise, who accepted an internship at SpaceX in 2011 against the advice of his parents, who urged him to take a role at General Electric ...