Only Elon Musk can fire Elon Musk from SpaceX, filing shows

doxeddaily•about 3 hours ago

Shocking! The owner of a company owns the company! Who knew?

tithos•about 5 hours ago

Why would you want anyone but Elon Musk at the head of SpaceX?

free_bip•about 4 hours ago

Because even an AI chatbot would do a better job than him?

Ekaros•about 2 hours ago

He somehow has managed to keep Tesla price irrational for very long time. Doing same with SpaceX could happen.

jjk166•about 4 hours ago

Even if you accept that Musk is currently the best possible head of SpaceX (which in my opinion is a very strong claim), he probably won't always and forever be the best possible head of SpaceX.

Musk's strength is in making bold plays, assembling teams together to make those plays, and building hype around those bold plays. Those skills were certainly critical for both SpaceX and Tesla in the early days, anyone denying that value is either delusional or pushing a revisionist history. But as companies grow large and mature, their needs change. Is Musk the leader you want when you need to do the boring work of making your infrastructure more robust? Would Musk even want that job?

panick21_•about 5 hours ago

Because instead of focusing on Space he has gone all in on AI (after going all in on AI for years with Tesla causing a huge issue). I think Musk was great at leading SpaceX when he really was focused on it.

Now he is focused on something else and he is using SpaceX good name and finances to make an AI play.

So yes, I have nobody over the old, lets go to Mars Musk, the new 'its all about AI' Musk, not so much.

Zigurd•about 2 hours ago

The Mars colony was as big a pipe dream as putting gigawatt data centers into orbit.

fy20•about 5 hours ago

Isn't this all just the long game for Mars? Humanoid AI robots would be beneficial there too.

panick21_•about 5 hours ago

And the only way to get AI is to invest 100s of billions yourself? Doing all the investing for a insane datacenter in space thing?

Instead of just saying "anybody that wants to put data-centers in space, please pay us".

SpaceX has been incredibly successful without massive acquisition for a long time. Every product the made was a banger. And now they bought fucking Twitter.

SilverElfin•about 5 hours ago

Because he is starting to manage it in really corrupt ways? Acquiring xAI for an overinflated amount is like stealing from SpaceX shareholders.

tocs3•about 5 hours ago

Also, he is looking less like someone doing amazing things and more like someone talking about the amazing things he is gonna do.

In the past I was thinking I would really like to invest in spacex. Who know they might do really well. I am not so sure now.

marcusverus•about 4 hours ago

The first catch of Super Heavy by the chopsticks was 18 months ago. Tesla started mass production of a dedicated, steering-wheel-free robotaxi five days ago. The first flight of the new Raptor 3 engine should happen any day now.

Elon is doing amazing things on a regular basis. What would drive someone to pretend otherwise?

Only Elon Musk can fire Elon Musk from SpaceX, filing shows

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