They got mostly the money SPCX paid them. It was a large payment but not out of the ordinary. And all that they risked was their index relevancy.
Source?
He may have claimed this. But he has no power to. Once a stock is publicly listed, every exchange can trade it. Where Musk had influence was on to whom he paid his listing fee.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/garthfriesen/2026/04/25/spacex-...
Notice a listing on the board and an inclusion in an index are two different things. Nastaq changed the index to secure the listing of SpaceX on their board.
Nobody contested this. You said inclusion was “a prerequisite for trading the stock on the board.” That is incorrect.
New Milennium regulations don’t let listing boards or issuers say where their stock can and can’t be traded.