马斯克称与Alphabet利益冲突太多:谷歌高管哈里森退出SpaceX董事会

SpaceX首席执行官马斯克(Elon Musk)11月6日在社交平台X上发帖说,谷歌高管唐纳德·哈里森(Donald Harrison)退出SpaceX董事会,是因为与Alphabet的利益冲突「实在太多」。哈里森已于11月4日通知公司辞职、即时生效,他在SpaceX董事会任职逾十年。
这条帖子是马斯克在回复太空行业记者索耶·梅里特(Sawyer Merritt)时发出的。他写道:「Don是位出色的董事,非常感谢他的贡献」,又说:「到现在,与Alphabet的利益冲突实在太多,所以他决定退出。」需要说明的是,利益冲突这一辞职理由只出自马斯克的这条帖子,SpaceX向美国证券交易委员会提交的正式文件并没有给出辞职理由。
SpaceX于11月6日向美国证券交易委员会(SEC)提交8-K文件,由首席财务官布雷特·约翰森(Bret Johnsen)签署。文件称,哈里森于11月4日通知公司辞去董事职务、即时生效,辞职「并非源于与公司在运营、政策或惯例上的任何分歧」。文件没有提及继任者。
据路透社11月6日报道,哈里森现任谷歌全球伙伴关系与企业发展总裁。Alphabet是SpaceX最大的单一机构股东,谷歌持有的SpaceX股份已增至约5.55亿股。谷歌在经CNBC发表的声明中说,尽管哈里森退出董事会,公司仍坚定支持SpaceX的使命,并乐于延续双方的长期伙伴关系;声明没有谈及辞职理由。SpaceX在给投资者的说明中感谢哈里森多年的服务,称他在公司建成超级智能基础设施平台期间作出了重要贡献。
行业分析账号FourWeekMBA按SpaceX今年6月提交的S-1/A招股文件推算,哈里森退出后,公司董事会将由8人减至7人、独立董事由5人减至4人。这只是基于此前文件的推算,SpaceX尚未公布新的董事会名单。
截至发稿,SpaceX没有发布进一步说明,哈里森本人未见公开回应。
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Musk Cites Too Many Conflicts With Alphabet as Google Executive Harrison Leaves SpaceX Board
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said in a post on X on November 6 that Google executive Donald Harrison left the SpaceX board because there were, by now, "just too many conflicts of interest with Alphabet." Harrison had notified the company of his resignation on November 4, effective immediately, after serving on the SpaceX board for more than a decade.
Musk made the remarks in a reply to space industry reporter Sawyer Merritt. "Don was a great board member, very much appreciate his contributions," he wrote. "By now, just too many conflicts of interest with Alphabet, so he chose to step down." The conflicts explanation comes only from Musk's post; SpaceX's formal filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission gives no reason for the resignation.
In a Form 8-K filed with the SEC on November 6 and signed by Chief Financial Officer Bret Johnsen, SpaceX said Harrison notified the company on November 4 that he was resigning as a director, effective immediately, and that the resignation was "not the result of any disagreement with the company on any matter relating to its operations, policies or practices." The filing named no successor.
According to Reuters on November 6, Harrison is Google's president of global partnerships and corporate development. Alphabet is SpaceX's largest single institutional shareholder, and Google's holding has risen to about 555 million SpaceX shares. In a statement carried by CNBC, Google said that although Harrison was leaving the board, it remained firmly supportive of SpaceX's mission and happy to continue their longstanding partnership; the statement did not address the reason for his departure. In a note to investors, SpaceX thanked Harrison for his years of service and credited his contributions while the company built its superintelligence infrastructure platform.
Working from SpaceX's S-1/A registration statement filed in June, the industry analysis account FourWeekMBA estimated the board would shrink from eight members to seven, and its independent directors from five to four, after Harrison's exit. That is an estimate based on an earlier filing; SpaceX has not published a new board roster.
As of publication, SpaceX had issued no further statement, and Harrison had made no public comment.
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