[soared]

You... don’t? There is a reason that Elon etc are the ones with bootstrapped space companies and very few others.

[fastball]

SpaceX has raised $3.2B in funding[0]... they are far from bootstrapped.

[0] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/space-exploration-te...

[justanotherhn]

They're not bootstrapped NOW. Say that in 2007 when they had the falcon 1. Obviously, they've gone on to raise money after showing that they can get into LEO.