{"id":5000,"date":"2026-07-04T01:19:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T01:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/07\/04\/googles-early-bet-on-spacex-a-900-million-investment-now-worth-over-110-billion\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T01:19:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T01:19:15","slug":"googles-early-bet-on-spacex-a-900-million-investment-now-worth-over-110-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/07\/04\/googles-early-bet-on-spacex-a-900-million-investment-now-worth-over-110-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s Early Bet on SpaceX: A $900 Million Investment Now Worth Over $110 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s parent company, Alphabet, made a prescient investment of <strong>$900 million<\/strong> in SpaceX back in January 2015. This early stake, initially valued at $12 billion and representing about 7.5% of the company, has since grown to an astonishing <strong>$110.3 billion<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This remarkable growth translates to over a 12,000% return for Alphabet, showcasing its astute investment strategy in the burgeoning space exploration sector. The company&#8217;s investment prowess is further demonstrated by its significant stakes in AI ventures like Anthropic and AST SpaceMobile.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/investing\/2024\/05\/02\/google-parent-alphabet-invested-900-million-into-spacex-in-january-2015-heres-how-much-that-investment-is-worth-today\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">READ MORE FROM THE MOTLEY FOOL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s parent company, Alphabet, made a prescient investment of $900 million in SpaceX back in January 2015. This early stake, initially valued at $12 billion and representing about 7.5% of the company, has since grown to an astonishing $110.3 billion. This remarkable growth translates to over a 12,000% return for Alphabet, showcasing its astute investment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/g.foolcdn.com\/image\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fg.foolcdn.com%2Feditorial%2Fimages%2F877052%2Frocket-coins-calculator-financial-metrics-to-moon-crypto-invest-getty.jpg&amp;w=3840&amp;op=resize","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,29,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","category-global-affairs","category-technology","rifnote_executive-elon-musk"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/g.foolcdn.com\/image\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fg.foolcdn.com%2Feditorial%2Fimages%2F877052%2Frocket-coins-calculator-financial-metrics-to-moon-crypto-invest-getty.jpg&amp;w=3840&amp;op=resize","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}