{"id":733981,"date":"2026-06-17T23:50:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T20:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/roelof-botha-joins-spacexs-board-of-directors\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T23:50:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T20:50:26","slug":"roelof-botha-joins-spacexs-board-of-directors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/roelof-botha-joins-spacexs-board-of-directors\/","title":{"rendered":"Roelof Botha joins SpaceX&#8217;s board of directors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former Sequoia Captial managing partner Roelof Botha is joining SpaceX\u2019s board of directors, less than a week after the company went public in the largest IPO ever.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SpaceX <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net\/CIK-0001181412\/d696ce79-cc89-41c0-88e2-48f4dd9c3145.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">announced<\/a> the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ointment in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday. It said Botha was appointed \u201cto fill the existing vacancy on the Board\u201d and that he will serve until SpaceX\u2019s next annual shareholder meeting.\u201d He will also join the SpaceX board\u2019s audit committee. Botha didn\u2019t im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>tely respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Botha \u201cbrings extensive public company experience along with a deep audit committee background, having served on the boards and audit committees of numerous public companies,\u201d SpaceX wrote in the filing. He stepped down from his role as Sequoia\u2019s leader late last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Botha briefly overlapped with SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk at PayPal in 2000. Botha started at the payments company in March of that year, according to his LinkedIn profile. Musk was pushed out as CEO of PayPal in September 200. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The addition of Botha brings SpaceX\u2019s board to nine directors. He joins Musk confidants Ira Ehrenpreis, Antonio Gracias, Steve Jurvetson, and Luke Nosek, SpaceX chief operating officer Gwynne Shotwell, as well as Google executive Donald Harrison, and VC Randy Glein. Musk is chairman of the board. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>This story is developing. Check back for updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. This doesn\u2019t affect our editorial independence.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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SpaceX announced the appointment in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday. It said Botha was appointed \u201cto fill the existing vacancy on the Board\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":733982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2243688557.jpg?resize=1200,800","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[77337,155926,5019,70678,151477],"class_list":["post-733981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-ai","tag-roelof-botha","tag-space","tag-spacex","tag-venture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}