while it’s true that spacex is a private company, it’s widely known that they are highly profitable. they have many institutional investors, and a long line of people that would love to be on their cap table.
the article you linked to is more than a year old, and does acknowledge that at the time spacex was flirting with profitability. do you contend that they are not currently “profitable”?
also, many (maybe most?) privste companies deny employees who have options access to complete company financial statements.
https://www.fool.com/investing/2023/08/27/despite-rare-profi...