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Elon, Explained is an independent educational publication that breaks down every Elon Musk company and project in plain language, with charts and primary-sourced figures. It covers Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, The Boring Company, government work, and the ideas behind them.

Elon Musk leads Tesla, SpaceX (which includes Starlink and the SpaceXAI AI unit), Neuralink, and The Boring Company, alongside the Elon Musk Foundation and government efficiency work. Each gets its own section on Elon, Explained.

SpaceX began trading on Nasdaq under the ticker SPCX on June 12, 2026 at an implied value of roughly $1.78 trillion, raising about $86 billion in gross proceeds. It was the largest initial public offering on record by gross proceeds, per the company's SEC prospectus.

Through a dual-class structure where Class B shares carry ten votes each, Elon Musk holds about 82.4% of SpaceX's voting power after the IPO, while new public investors own roughly 4.9% of the company, according to the SEC prospectus.

MACROHARD is Elon Musk's project, revealed in August 2025, to run a software company almost entirely with AI agents instead of human employees. It pairs Grok as the reasoning brain with a roughly $650 Tesla AI4 chip as the execution agent. As of mid-2026 it is pre-product.

Colossus, the Memphis supercomputer behind SpaceXAI, reached roughly 555,000 GPUs and about 2 gigawatts of power by February 2026, on a stated roadmap toward more than one million GPUs, per Grokipedia.

Neuralink's N1 implant reads the brain through 1,024 electrodes spread across 64 thin threads. Neuralink has said it plans to scale toward 3,000 electrodes in future versions.

As of 2026, Neuralink reported 27 or more participants enrolled worldwide across its brain-implant trials, up from a single implant two years earlier.

Elon Musk's net worth is estimated at roughly $1 trillion as of July 2026. The vast majority is the value of his ownership stakes in SpaceX and Tesla rather than cash, as the Net Worth Tracker explains.

SpaceX's Falcon 9 flew 165 times in 2025, more than half of all global orbital launches and over 80% of the mass delivered to orbit, according to figures in the SpaceX IPO prospectus.