Early investors of SpaceX: Merger with Tesla 'just a matter of time' Musk hopes to consolidate control over his subsidiary companies According to a report by Golden Finance, on May 28th, on the eve of Elon Musk's epic IPO, the market has been speculating about the prospect of its merger with Tesla. And a speech by an early SpaceX investor further reinforced this expectation. Peter Diamandis, an early investor in SpaceX, said that a merger with Tesla after SpaceX's IPO is inevitable, and the question is only when it will happen because Musk will want to consolidate control of his subsidiary companies. In fact, shortly after the announcement of SpaceX's prospectus, Dan Ives, an analyst at well-known US investment bank Wedbush, and his team released a research report predicting that SpaceX and Tesla will complete their merger in 2027. Ives pointed out that Tesla already holds shares in SpaceX, and the joint construction of the Terafab facility further ties the two companies together.