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Re: SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B

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Tesla’s profits and market share has been declining for the past few years and it’s basically an overpriced meme stock.

Their market share of EVs in the US went from 40.9% in Q3 2025 to 58.9% in Q4 2025. You may not have noticed because positive Musk related news doesn't seem to make headlines anymore.

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Re: SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B

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They're going to force a S&P500 index listing on IPO day so we're all going to be forced to baghold this regardless of if we want to or not unless you've got $0 in any major retirement fund.

My money's all in Bitcoin pats himself on the back

Kinda shocked SpaceX hasn't bailed out the DOGE-holders at this point..

Re: SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B

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It is adversely selected, but it's not debt, it's equity, so price action can go real fast and nobody will be burned except folks who soberly-or-not opted into this. Everyone _knows_ Elon is the way he is, so nobody will be _surprised_ at things. No surprise, no crisis.

They're going to force a S&P500 index listing on IPO day so we're all going to be forced to baghold this regardless of if we want to or not unless you've got $0 in any major retirement fund.

So far they're only getting fastracked into Nasdaq 100, not S&P 500.

Re: SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B

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I wouldn't be surprised if those enterprise relationships evaporate after this acquisition. There's a reason why xAI has zero enterprise customers.

> There's a reason why xAI has zero enterprise customers I’m curious where you pull these stats from

I've had hundreds of AI-powered vendor tools come across my desk as part of my job, and I have yet to see a single one that uses Grok. I'm also not aware of any publicly announced customers for Grok's enterprise offering. The Grok Enterprise website doesn't list any customers.

Re: SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B

#356

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tesla’s profits and market share has been declining for the past few years and it’s basically an overpriced meme stock.

Their market share of EVs in the US went from 40.9% in Q3 2025 to 58.9% in Q4 2025. You may not have noticed because positive Musk related news doesn't seem to make headlines anymore.

> Their market share of EVs in the US went from 40.9% in Q3 2025 to 58.9% in Q4 2025.

You’re not wrong factually, but it doesn’t mean what you’re suggesting it means. Their share went up because EVs aren’t selling as much anymore. All companies including Tesla are selling fewer EVs. They just have a bigger share of the smaller pie, which isn’t exactly a success when you only sell EVs, but your competitors also sell non EVs.

Re: SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B

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So SpaceX bought a $60B Option on Cursor, plus a bunch of services, for $10B. If strike date comes and Cursor is in fact worth less than $60B... they can move to acquire it for that price. Or just let it "expire". And if it's worth more, they get a savage good deal. If the services were worth $8B anyway, it's hard to lose. It seems less crazy to me through this lens. A straight acquisition, today, at $60B would in fa…

Paying $10B for the option is also crazy though. Paying $10B for the thing outright and not just an option would be absurdly high.

Problem is basically, that if the option works out (Cursor truly has the talent to train a frontier model on SpaceX's infrastructure, and were simply lacking the infra before) the fair price would be way way more than $60B.

OpenAI tried to acquire Windsurf last year for $3B and couldn't.

Re: SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tesla’s profits and market share has been declining for the past few years and it’s basically an overpriced meme stock.

Their market share of EVs in the US went from 40.9% in Q3 2025 to 58.9% in Q4 2025. You may not have noticed because positive Musk related news doesn't seem to make headlines anymore.

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Re: SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B

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Matt Levine writes a bit about this - the Elon Musk Mars Conglomerate. And really if you're investing into e.g. SpaceX you're not investing into SpaceX you're investing into the Elon Musk Mars Conglomerate. And most people seem to want that. Tesla's the odd one out: it's public but it's still in there, although Musk would probably prefer it to be private too.

> Elon Musk Mars Conglomerate That’s SpaceX’s version of Tesla’s self driving car pipe dream Edit - I use self-driving car and Autopilot interchangeably

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