{"id":13617,"date":"2026-06-11T12:05:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T12:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=13617"},"modified":"2026-06-11T12:05:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T12:05:15","slug":"all-in-on-musk-spacexs-self-declared-dream-weaver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=13617","title":{"rendered":"All in on Musk, SpaceX\u2019s self-declared \u2018dream weaver\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: 300px 160px; gap: 2px; width: 460px; background: #eee; padding: 2px;\">\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u6574\u884c\u5bbd\u5e7f\u544a -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876674\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 90px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876676\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u5de6\u4fa7\u7ad6\u6392 -->\r\n  <div style=\"height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876672\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"height: 500px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876680\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u53f3\u4fa7\u6469\u5929\u697c\uff08\u548c\u5de6\u4fa7\u5b8c\u5168\u5bf9\u9f50\uff09 -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-row: 3\/5; height: 750px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876678\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  \r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e6\" data-zoneid=\"5876682\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n<\/div><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>When SpaceX lists on Wall Street, expected on Friday, Elon Musk will serve simultaneously as chief executive, chief technology officer and board chairman of the rocket and AI company.<\/p>\n<p>He will control more than 82 percent of its voting shares. There is no designated successor, no deputy and no key-person life insurance written into its filings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The world&#8217;s most valuable IPO depends entirely on one man.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s completely upending the conventional conduct of running a publicly traded corporation by declaring himself an irreplaceable dream weaver and master engineer of the whole undertaking,&#8221; Quinn Slobodian, co-author with Ben Tarnoff of &#8220;Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed,&#8221; told AFP in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>For Slobodian, a professor of international history at Boston University who has spent years studying Musk&#8217;s empire, that brazen concentration of personal power is not a flaw in the SpaceX offering &#8212; it is its defining feature.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX is targeting a valuation of approximately $1.8 trillion and aims to raise $75 billion when trading opens Friday under the ticker SPCX, in what will be the largest public offering in history.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Jobs and Gates &#8211;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>To understand how Musk positioned himself as literally irreplaceable, Slobodian pointed to the &#8220;prophetic founder&#8221; model exemplified by Steve Jobs and Bill Gates.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jobs and Gates are kind of the template,&#8221; Slobodian said, adding that Musk&#8217;s decision to give Walter Isaacson &#8212; the biographer who immortalized Jobs &#8212; access for his own biography was itself a tell.<\/p>\n<p>What gave Musk&#8217;s version of that archetype genuine credibility, Slobodian argued, was a willingness to go against the grain of early 21st-century investment orthodoxy.<\/p>\n<p>At a time when &#8220;design in California, assemble in China&#8221; was the way &#8212; with the iPhone as the example &#8212; Musk poured his early fortune from PayPal into a rocket company and an electric vehicle manufacturer, both requiring him to solve brutally hard engineering problems.<\/p>\n<p>His distance from his tech-billionaire peers is now measurable in purely financial terms.<\/p>\n<p>Musk&#8217;s fortune, expected to hit $1 trillion with the IPO, is approaching three times the size of that of the second richest person on the planet, currently Google co-founder Larry Page.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s operating at a different scale, and with a scope of ambition that just makes him singular,&#8221; Slobodian said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Too big to fail &#8211;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Musk is often framed as a libertarian entrepreneur who built his empire outside the reach of government.<\/p>\n<p>Slobodian argues that Musk has always depended on government as primary client or subsidy giver, from his earliest startup Zip2&#8217;s reliance on publicly funded GPS data to the billions SpaceX draws in federal contracts today.<\/p>\n<p>He pointed in particular to what he described as SpaceX&#8217;s Golden Dome contracts, worth $4 billion, to supply satellite infrastructure for the Trump administration&#8217;s proposed national missile defense shield.<\/p>\n<p>In his view, SpaceX is structurally too critical to national security interests for any administration to let it fail.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If Trump gave a second thought to bailing out Spirit Airlines,&#8221; Slobodian said of the bankrupt low-cost carrier, &#8220;what about SpaceX?&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; After Henry Ford &#8211;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Slobodian situated Musk&#8217;s alignment with far-right movements in the United States and sovereigntist parties in Europe as serving commercial ends, not merely personal ones.<\/p>\n<p>He argued that Musk sees compliant political partners both abroad and at home as essential to obtaining the regulatory approvals SpaceX needs: spectrum allocations, satellite launch rights and permission to operate Starlink in key markets.<\/p>\n<p>That worldview, Slobodian and Tarnoff contend in their book, has roots in Musk&#8217;s upbringing in the suburbs of Pretoria under apartheid-era South Africa &#8212; a regime they argue deployed IBM mainframes and advanced technology to control the population through data collection and surveillance.<\/p>\n<p>As for whether the Musk model outlasts the dream weaver himself, Slobodian pointed to Palantir &#8212; which, like SpaceX, first broke into government work by suing the US military for contracts &#8212; as one potential carrier of the torch.<\/p>\n<p>But a true successor, he suggested, may be hard to find, &#8220;just as there was no Henry Ford after Henry Ford,&#8221; only imitations.<\/p>\n<p>The post All in on Musk, SpaceX&#8217;s self-declared &#8216;dream weaver&#8217; appeared first on Digital Journal.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \u603b\u5bb9\u5668\uff1a\u6700\u5927\u5bbd908px Grid\u7d27\u51d1\u5e03\u5c40 -->\r\n<div style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: 728px 160px; gap:2px; width:908px; background:#eee; padding:2px;\">\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u901a\u680f\u9876\u90e8\uff1a\u6700\u5927\u6a2a\u5e45 908x258 \u8de8\u6574\u884c -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column:1\/-1; 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