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This Week in Startups · February 2, 2026 · 75m
E2243: SpaceX + xAI Gets Us One Step Closer to Musk Industries
SpaceX buying xAI and forming a mega-corp that plans to launch data centers into space. Calacanis discusses whether Tesla will join to form Musk Industries.
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Canon
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Musk's strategy is to control the entire environment: chips (xAI), launch (SpaceX), energy (Tesla), compute (data centers in orbit). Controlling the environment gives you control over the behavior of every system within it.
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Calacanis draws parallels between Musk's emerging industrial empire and historical conglomerates like Standard Oil and US Steel, using biographical analysis to predict Musk's trajectory.
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