{"id":862256,"date":"2026-06-12T13:25:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T13:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/862256\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T13:25:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T13:25:23","slug":"spacexs-president-hints-at-a-tesla-merger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/862256\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX’s President Hints at a Tesla Merger"},"content":{"rendered":"

The noise around a Tesla-SpaceX mega-merger<\/a> is growing louder.<\/p>\n

In an interview with CNBC that aired Friday, SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell<\/a> said the two Elon Musk-led companies are working toward the same goals \u2014 and didn’t rule out a merger in the future.<\/p>\n

“That might make Elon’s life a little easier, actually,” said Shotwell, who has been SpaceX president since 2008.<\/p>\n

“There’s no question that there’s synergies between Tesla and SpaceX in our futures, definitely, there’s a convergence of a kind of what we’re all trying to accomplish in the future,” she said.<\/p>\n

However, Shotwell added that right now she was focused on “keeping the lights on” at SpaceX and the company’s ambitious expansion plans, rather than a tie-up with Musk’s other major public company.<\/p>\n

“I’m not focused on that part of the future, at least,” she said.<\/p>\n

\"Gwynne<\/p>\n

SpaceX president and COO Gwynne Shotwell.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Joe Raedle\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Musk has hinted at streamlining his sprawling business empire for years<\/a>, and the possibility of Tesla and SpaceX merging has been increasingly floated by analysts and investors in recent weeks.<\/p>\n

The two companies have shared employees and board members in the past and are already collaborating on a $55 billion “Terafab” chip-making moonshot<\/a> that will build semiconductors for SpaceX’s AI satellites, as well as Tesla’s robotaxis and humanoid robots.<\/p>\n

Tesla has also integrated xAI’s Grok AI model into its vehicles and made a $2 billion investment<\/a> in Musk’s AI startup last year, which was converted into a stake in SpaceX when the company merged with xAI in February.<\/p>\n

Wedbush Securities analyst and longtime Tesla bull Dan Ives wrote in a note on Thursday that he expected Tesla and SpaceX to merge into one company next year. He argued that combining the two trillion-dollar companies would be the “holy grail” that would allow Musk to capture a significant stake of the AI economy.<\/p>\n

Shotwell’s comments came as SpaceX prepared to begin trading on Friday after raising $75 billion in the largest IPO in history. The rocket company was priced with a $1.75 trillion valuation, compared to Tesla’s market cap of $1.25 trillion.<\/p>\n

SpaceX’s IPO<\/a> means Musk is in the rare position of running two publicly listed companies.<\/p>\n

The world’s richest man, who is CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, as well as the founder of brain implant startup Neuralink and tunneling firm The Boring Company, has\u00a0faced criticism<\/a>\u00a0from Tesla investors in the past for spending too little time at the EV giant.<\/p>\n

Musk was awarded a gigantic pay package<\/a> by Tesla shareholders last year that could be worth as much as $1 trillion<\/a> if he meets a series of ambitious targets. The near-trillionaire also has a similar pay package at SpaceX<\/a>, which hinges on the company establishing a human colony on Mars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The noise around a Tesla-SpaceX mega-merger is growing louder. In an interview with CNBC that aired Friday, SpaceX…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":862257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,638,5208,19835,351658,49709,351657,2539,57865,351659,341077,2527,4663,7829,351656,67,132,68,744],"class_list":["post-862256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-company","tag-friday","tag-future","tag-gigantic-pay-package","tag-humanoid-robot","tag-large-ipo","tag-musk","tag-past","tag-president-hints","tag-shotwell","tag-spacex","tag-stake","tag-tesla","tag-tesla-merger","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-xai"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/862257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}