Twitter Backers’ Patience Repaid With $100 Billion SpaceX Stake
SpaceX Starship lifts off from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas.
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In the months after Elon Musk closed on his $44 billion purchase of Twitter Inc., there was a broad consensus that not only had he overpaid, but that he’d dragged some of the world’s best-known investors into a bad deal.
Now backers including Larry Ellison, Andreessen Horowitz and Bill Ackman’s charitable foundation stand to earn a nearly 200% return on their equity investment.