More and more of Musk’s companies end up under the same roof. Here’s a look at his sprawling empire |
More and more of Musk’s companies end up under the same roof. Here’s a look at his sprawling empire
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and now first-ever trillionaire, controls a lot of different businesses.
Electric vehicles. Brain implants. Underground tunnels. A social media platform once called Twitter. And a rocket maker that blasted off its trading from Wall Street this week.
Over time, more and more of these ventures have found themselves under the same roof. Musk merged SpaceX — which went public on Friday — with his artificial intelligence company xAI just earlier this year. But he still holds the CEO role at several corporations today, in addition to other various executive titles or ownership stakes.
Here’s a look at Musk’s vast business empire.
Musk is CEO of SpaceX, which he founded in 2002. The company has grown far beyond rockets. It owns satellite communications service Starlink, a big source of cash for the company that generated $4.4 billion in operating income last year. SpaceX also houses social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, which Musk bought for $44 billion in 2022 and parked it under xAI, the maker of the Grok........