Aviation lawyer Amanda Applegate skipped her annual vacation last month as a surge of wealth from AI startups and SpaceX (SPCX.O) sent a wave of tech investors shopping for private jets, burying her in paperwork for aircraft-purchase agreements.
The Cleveland-based attorney attributed the rush to a handful of major “liquidity events” in the tech industry.
The IPO of Elon Musk’s SpaceX, whose holdings include artificial-intelligence firm xAI, raised a record
