While such structures are hardly unusual in corporate America, particularly among founder-led companies, few issues are so fiercely criticized by governance watchdogs.

SpaceX will keep Elon Musk as CEO, CTO, and chairman post-IPO, with a dual-class share structure giving him 79% voting control at a $1.75T valuation.

SpaceX plans a mid-2026 IPO with dual-class shares ensuring Elon Musk retains at least 25% voting control. The offering could raise up to $50 billion.

Musk will serve as the company's CEO, chief technical officer, and chairman of its board. He'll also control the election of the board of directors.

Investors who buy SpaceX shares will have almost no ability to force Elon Musk out of his company.

Musk, who will have more than 50% of the voting power, will have a monarchical grip over the publicly-traded version of SpaceX — control that goes far beyond what other tech…

Elon Musk has the largest stake in SpaceX by billions of shares. The other biggest shareholders also have longstanding and deep ties to Musk.

Elon Musk has mandated two classes of shares, binding arbitration, and many other policies shareholder advocates hate in the Space X S-1.

While such structures are hardly unusual in corporate America, particularly among founder-led companies, few issues are so fiercely criticized by governance watchdogs.

NEW YORK, May 24 — The dual-class share structure outlined in SpaceX’s IPO filing, which grants CEO Elon Musk outsized control, has revived one of Wall Street’s oldest...