What's up today · by Aoife Murphy · 2026-10-23

Musk floats a SpaceX + Tesla mega-merger. Genius or chaos?

bbc.co.uk

Musk says there's "a lot to be gained" by combining the two, which would be the biggest merger in history. Shared engineering and AI compute make some sense on paper, but governance and shareholder questions are huge. Would you hold shares in a combined company?

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Rafael Almeida · 8 likes

the conflict of interest stuff between his companies has been messy for years, this at least makes it one mess instead of five

Midnight Rider · 8 likes

one big mess > five small messes is a real strategy apparently

Omar Hassan · 2 likes

tesla shareholders getting rocket exposure whether they want it or not

Brave Panda · 1 likes

Starlink is the actual cash cow here, I'd want that spun out, not merged