Founders Fund put $600M into SpaceX. The IPO just turned it into $50bn.

Founders Fund’s SpaceX bet has become one of the great venture trades. Peter Thiel’s firm put around $600m into the rocket company. At the IPO price, that stake is worth more than $50bn. That is roughly an 80-fold return. Few venture bets have ever paid out on this scale. The figure comes from Bloomberg. Founders […] This story continues at The Next Web

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