In SpaceX’s IPO, Elon Musk is a risk factor

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FollowSee All BusinessIn SpaceX’s IPO, Elon Musk is a risk factorThe rocket company says its ‘highly dependent’ on Musk’s leadership. And that his other companies are possible competitors. HawkinsTransportation editorPosts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.

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HawkinsPosts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. FollowSee All by Andrew J. Hawkins is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation.

His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. The SpaceX IPO is here, and it’s more than just an historic public offering that could make Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire. It also reveals more ways in which Elon Musk’s companies interact and overlap with each other, shuffling money around in ways that are often difficult to keep track of.

This is evident in ways that are both obvious and less so. A CTRL-F search for “Tesla” yields 87 results, xAI is mentioned 356 times, and X 267 times. Even the Boring Company (7 times) and Neuralink (3) get a few mentions.

This advance offers important signals about the future of the sector, and the tech world is watching closely.