Twitter Backers’ Patience Repaid With $100 Billion SpaceX Stake

SpaceX Starship lifts off from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas. 

Photographer: Chandan Khanna/AFP/Getty Images

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.