Though the crowd was generally pretty bullish on SpaceX, Bryan Winter, an architect who stopped by on his way to work, said that this is “just another bubble.” We were, he said, watching “cult behavior.”
Winter, who said he planned to buy some shares nonetheless, told me it wasn’t his first time at an historic New York finance moment. He said he’d brought his then eight-year-old son to the Lehman Brothers building on September 14, 2008, the day before the investment banking giant collapsed.
Two 24-year-olds who said they were traders told me they don’t plan to buy any stock, since it’s volatile. They walked the 20 blocks from their office to check out the scene.