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Elon Musk has a long history of rolling up his companies. X.com and Paypal (2000), Solar City and Tesla (2016). xAI and X.com (2025) and SpaceX and xAI in February of this year.
For nearly a decade, Elon has insisted that there was “not a strong rationale” to merge Tesla with SpaceX. But in November we started to hear a different tune. “My companies are, surprisingly in some ways, trending towards convergence” Elon posted in November of 2025.
Will 2027 be the year of the Elon giga-merger?