Bye-bye corporate conglomerates. Hello personal conglomerates.
Feb 02, 2026•8 min
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Episode description
TechCrunch's Tim DeChant writes about Elon Musk's reported merging of SpaceX, xAI, and Tesla and how it harkens back to the heyday of General Electric — or maybe the robber barons of the Gilded Age.
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