SpaceX和特斯拉的董事会各自成立了特别委员会，以审查可能的合并事宜。据两家公司首席执行官兼最大个人股东埃隆·马斯克称，这些特别委员会是应股东要求而设立的，成员由独立董事组成。
The boards of SpaceX and Tesla have each formed special committees to review a possible merger. The special committees, which consist of independent directors, were created at the request of shareholders, according to Elon Musk, CEO and the largest individual shareholder of both companies.
马斯克在SpaceX第三季度财报电话会议上回答问题时表示：“因为我是利益冲突方，实际上无法参与特别委员会的讨论，所以这有点像……这是一种奇怪的歌舞伎表演，两组人在对话，而我无法参与其中。”
“Because I’m a conflicted party, I can’t actually be in the discussions of the special committees, so it’s this sort of a … it’s an odd kabuki dance where two groups of people are talking, and I can’t be in the conversation,” Musk said in response to a question during SpaceX’s third-quarter earnings call.
马斯克未透露这些特别委员会的成员名单，仅指出他们均为独立董事。根据特斯拉10月19日的代理人招募文件，依据纳斯达克上市标准，特斯拉拥有七名独立董事，包括董事长罗宾·邓霍姆、伊拉·埃伦普赖斯（同时担任委员会主席）、特斯拉前首席技术官JB·斯特劳贝尔、乔·盖比亚、杰克·哈特翁、詹姆斯·默多克和凯瑟琳·威尔逊-汤普森。
Musk didn’t name the members of these special committees, only noting that they were independent directors. Tesla has seven independent board members under Nasdaq’s listing standards, including board chair Robyn Denholm, Ira Ehrenpreis, who is also a committee chair, former Tesla CTO JB Straubel, Joe Gebbia, Jack Hartung, James Murdoch, and Kathleen Wilson-Thompson, according to the company’s October 19 proxy filing.
马斯克本人及其弟弟金巴尔·马斯克均不属于独立董事。邓霍姆、盖比亚、埃伦普赖斯、哈特翁、默多克和威尔逊-汤普森分别担任审计、薪酬和公司治理等多个常设委员会的成员。
Neither Musk, nor his brother Kimbal Musk, are independent. Denholm, Gebbia, Ehrenpreis, Hartung, Murdoch, and Wilson-Thompson sit on a variety of established committees overseeing audit, compensation, and corporate governance.
SpaceX名单上有六名独立董事，其中包括埃伦普赖斯，他同时担任该公司薪酬与提名委员会主席。兰迪·格莱因、唐纳德·哈里森、史蒂夫·朱维特森、卢克·诺塞克和罗洛夫·博塔也被视为独立董事。
SpaceX lists six independent directors, including Ehrenpreis, who is also the chair of the company’s compensation and nominating committee. Randy Glein, Donald Harrison, Steve Jurvetson, Luke Nosek, and Roelef Boutha are also considered independent directors.
安东尼奥·加西亚斯、马斯克以及SpaceX总裁兼首席运营官格温·肖特韦尔也在董事会中，但不被视为独立董事。加西亚斯曾任特斯拉董事，创立并领导Valor Equity Partners，该机构持有SpaceX 3.4%的股份。加西亚斯的公司还通过售后回租安排为SpaceX的AI硬件采购提供了融资。马斯克表示他支持合并构想，但警告称这并非必然结果。
Antonio Garcias, Musk, and SpaceX president and chief operating officer Gwynne Shotwell are also on the board, but not considered independent. Garcias, who once sat on Tesla’s board, founded and leads Valor Equity Partners, which has a 3.4% stake in SpaceX. Garcias’ firm also financed SpaceX’s AI hardware purchases through leaseback arrangements. Musk said he supports the idea of the merger, but cautioned that it is not a guaranteed outcome.
“我认为有些人认为SpaceX和特斯拉的合并是必然会发生的，但我觉得这种看法有些过于夸大了，”他说，并补充道：“归根结底，股东们必须支持这一合并计划。”他还表示，相关特别委员会尚未就任何交易的具体条款达成一致。
“I think some people out there assume that a SpaceX and Tesla Motor is a certainty, and I think that would be overstating it,” he said, adding that he thinks it would be a good idea. “At the end of the day, the shareholders have to be supportive of this.”
SpaceX的IPO进一步巩固了马斯克对公司的控制权——他拥有超过50%的投票权，这有助于他更容易获得SpaceX股东的支持。相比之下，特斯拉的情况要复杂得多：特斯拉的合并计划需要获得所有股东的同意（而不仅仅是那些参与投票的股东的同意）。
The special committees have not reached agreement on the terms of any transactions, he said. The SpaceX IPO cemented Musk’s grip on the company — he has more than 50% voting power — which would make it easier to garner support for a merger from SpaceX shareholders.
“我确实认为合并这两家公司很有意义，因为我们现在正处于‘超级智能’发展的关键阶段，”马斯克说。他进一步指出，双方在人工智能软件、机器人技术、SpaceX的轨道人工智能数据中心项目‘Starmind’以及特斯拉与SpaceX共同开发的芯片制造项目‘Terafab’等领域都有很多合作机会和收益。
It is a much bigger hurdle over at Tesla, where the company would need a 50% vote from all shareholders, not just those who vote, Musk noted. “I do think there’s a lot of merit to combining the companies as we are pretty much in the superintelligence singularity,” Musk said, adding there was a lot to be gaining from cooperating on developing AI software, robotics, SpaceX’s orbital AI data center project Starmind, and Terafab, the joint chip manufacturing project between Tesla and SpaceX.