{"slug": "spacex-s-president-hints-at-a-tesla-merger-that-might-make-elon-s-life-a-little", "title": "SpaceX's president hints at a Tesla merger: 'That might make Elon's life a little easier'", "summary": "SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell said in a CNBC interview Friday that a merger between SpaceX and Tesla is possible, stating the two Elon Musk-led companies share synergies and a future convergence of goals. Shotwell acknowledged such a deal \"might make Elon's life a little easier\" but emphasized her current focus is on SpaceX's expansion plans. The comments come as SpaceX began trading Friday after a record $75 billion IPO, with analysts increasingly predicting a Tesla-SpaceX merger could occur next year.", "body_md": "The noise around a [Tesla-SpaceX mega-merger](https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-ipo-tesla-merger-elon-musk-ai-dan-ives-spcx-2026-5) is growing louder.\n\nIn an interview with CNBC aired Friday, [SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell](https://www.businessinsider.com/gwynne-shotwell-runs-spacex-elon-musk-life-career-2024-6) said the two Elon Musk-led companies are working toward the same goals — and didn't rule out a merger in the future.\n\n\"That might make Elon's life a little easier, actually,\" said Shotwell, who has been SpaceX president since 2008.\n\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.\n\nHowever, 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.\n\n\"I'm not focused on that part of the future, at least,\" she said.\n\nMusk has hinted at streamlining his sprawling business empire [for years](https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-tesla-xai-merger-explained-elon-musk-business-empire-ipo-2026-1), and the possibility of Tesla and SpaceX merging has been increasingly floated by analysts and investors in recent weeks.\n\nThe two companies have shared employees and board members in the past and are already collaborating on a $55 billion [\"Terafab\" chip-making moonshot](https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-terafab-chip-factory-launch-elon-musk-biggest-challenge-2026-3) that will build semiconductors for SpaceX's AI satellites, as well as Tesla's robotaxis and humanoid robots.\n\nTesla has also integrated xAI's Grok AI model into its vehicles and made a [$2 billion investment](https://www.businessinsider.com/xai-macrohard-project-tesla-ai-agent-stalls-2026-3) in Musk's AI startup last year, which was converted into a stake in SpaceX when the company merged with xAI in February.\n\nWedbush 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.\n\nShotwell'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.\n\n[SpaceX's IPO](https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-ipo-live-updates-pricing-spcx-stock-2026-6#pension-funds-strike-back) means Musk is in the rare position of running two publicly listed companies.\n\nThe 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 [faced criticism](https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-stock-price-crash-investors-want-elon-musk-ceo-tsla-2025-3) from Tesla investors in the past for spending too little time at the EV giant.\n\nMusk was awarded a [gigantic pay package](https://www.businessinsider.com/business-experts-shareholders-weigh-in-on-elon-musk-pay-package-2025-11) by Tesla shareholders last year that could be worth as [much as $1 trillion](https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-ipo-elon-musk-net-worth-trillionaire-2026-6) if he meets a series of ambitious targets. The near-trillionaire also has a [similar pay package at SpaceX](https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-moonshot-spacex-pay-package-requires-mars-city-development-2026-5), which hinges on the company establishing a human colony on Mars.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/spacex-s-president-hints-at-a-tesla-merger-that-might-make-elon-s-life-a-little", "canonical_source": "https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-spacex-merger-elon-musk-gwynne-shotwell-2026-6", "published_at": "2026-06-12 11:06:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-12 11:46:54.347619+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["autonomous-vehicles", "ai-chips", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["SpaceX", "Tesla", "Elon Musk", "Gwynne Shotwell", "CNBC"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/spacex-s-president-hints-at-a-tesla-merger-that-might-make-elon-s-life-a-little", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/spacex-s-president-hints-at-a-tesla-merger-that-might-make-elon-s-life-a-little.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/spacex-s-president-hints-at-a-tesla-merger-that-might-make-elon-s-life-a-little.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/spacex-s-president-hints-at-a-tesla-merger-that-might-make-elon-s-life-a-little.jsonld"}}