{"id":1044691,"date":"2026-10-21T10:51:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T05:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1044691"},"modified":"2026-10-21T10:51:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T05:21:23","slug":"a-good-idea-elon-musk-says-special-committees-will-discuss-tesla-and-spacex-merger-while-he-sits-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/21\/a-good-idea-elon-musk-says-special-committees-will-discuss-tesla-and-spacex-merger-while-he-sits-out\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A good idea\u2019: Elon Musk says special committees will discuss Tesla and SpaceX merger while he sits out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two of the most valuable companies in the world are exploring a potential merger. Tesla CEO and founder of SpaceX, Elon Musk, on Tuesday said that they had formed special committees to discuss the merger between the two entities. While the size of the deal has not been officially announced, SpaceX is worth about $2 trillion, and Tesla is worth nearly $1.5 trillion, making the combined entity worth at least $3.5 trillion. SpaceX is currently the 7th most valuable company in the world, while Tesla sits in the 11th spot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it would be a good idea, but it&#8217;s really up to the special committees of both companies,&#8221; Musk was quoted as saying by Reuters. Sharing further details about the potential merger, Musk said the special committees would discuss the matter while he sits out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two of the most valuable companies in the world are exploring a potential merger. Tesla CEO and founder of SpaceX, Elon Musk, on Tuesday said that they had formed special committees to discuss the merger between the two entities. While the size of the deal has not been officially announced, SpaceX is worth about $2 trillion, and Tesla is worth nearly $1.5 trillion, making the combined entity worth at least $3.5 trillion. SpaceX is currently the 7th most valuable company in the world, while Tesla sits in the 11th spot. &#8220;I think it would be a good idea, but it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1044691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1044691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1044692,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044691\/revisions\/1044692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}