Elon Musk’s next move may be a megamerger of SpaceX and Tesla

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Because Musk controls SpaceX and is Tesla’s largest shareholder, he would essentially be making a deal with himself.

As Tesla's largest shareholder, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk would basically be making a deal with himself.

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Jack Ewing and Ryan Mac

NEW YORK – SpaceX held the biggest initial public offering of all time, but Wall Street may be expecting something even bigger from Elon Musk.

Many of his fans and investors expect the rocket company’s chief executive to merge SpaceX with Tesla, the maker of electric cars where he is also CEO, joining most of his businesses into a single roughly US$4 trillion (S$5 trillion) tech conglomerate – a sort of Elon, Inc.

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