Becky Peterson is a reporter at The Wall Street Journal covering Tesla. She specializes in areas such as artificial intelligence, finance, and automotive technology, with a keen focus on the intersection of deep tech and car manufacturing. Her work has been featured in Yahoo Finance, The Information, Yahoo News, and other prominent publications.
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A deal between the two tech titans would give a boost to SpaceX's business ahead of a historic public listing.
By: Becky Peterson
If all goes according to plan, SpaceX’s IPO paperwork could be made public this afternoon and contain more information on these key questions: How does SpaceX make its money? SpaceX makes its money from subscriptions to its Starlink satellite internet service, rocket launches to put satellit
SpaceX has eight directors with CEO Elon Musk as chairman of the board. The other directors include longtime SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell, Google executive Donald Harrison, as well as investors Antonio Gracias, Steve Jurvetson and Luke Nosek. Randy Glein, a longtime board observer, joined the bo
SpaceX reported $4.7 billion in revenue for the first quarter of the year, and $18.7 billion in revenue for 2025, including money made from xAI, which it acquired in February. Its satellite-internet service Starlink brought in $3.3 billion for the first quarter and $11.4 billion for the year. The s
Total capital expenditures at SpaceX came in at $20.7 billion. SpaceX and xAI arm it took over in February have invested heavily in infrastructure over the past year. SpaceX is racing to complete its new Starship rocket, while xAI has burned through cash building out data centers. The launch and sat
By: Micah Maidenberg, Becky Peterson
Musk took home $54,000 in pay last year for his role at SpaceX, but most of his compensation is made up of two massive equity packages, one of which depends on a human colony on Mars. In January, SpaceX gave Musk a package worth one billion class B shares which vest if the company establishes “a pe
By: Theo Francis, Becky Peterson
Documents related to SpaceX’s initial public offering show the company is unprofitable and CEO Elon Musk controls 85% of the vote.
Documents related to SpaceX's initial public offering show the company is unprofitable and CEO Elon Musk controls 85% of the vote.
With supervoting shares and help from Texas state law, the CEO has worked to address governance issues he has faced at Tesla.
Plus, voice-powered writing in Google Docs, the coming “vibe slop” crisis, the rising AI backlash and Apple’s success with imperfect chips.
