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RT Aakash Gupta (@aakashg0)In January 2015, Google and Fidelity wrote a combined $1 billion check for roughly 10% of SpaceX. The company was valued at $12 billion. Google’s portion: approximately $900 million for 7.4%.At the time, SpaceX had just successfully landed a Falcon 9 first stage for the first time. Starlink was a PowerPoint presentation. Revenue was a rounding error compared to today.Ten years later, SpaceX has become the most valuable private company on Earth.The valuation trajectory tells the st ...