{"id":1029311,"date":"2026-08-17T11:10:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T05:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1029311"},"modified":"2026-08-17T11:10:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T05:40:32","slug":"how-googles-parent-alphabet-turned-into-the-biggest-profitable-shareholder-after-spacexs-ipo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/17\/how-googles-parent-alphabet-turned-into-the-biggest-profitable-shareholder-after-spacexs-ipo\/","title":{"rendered":"How Google&#8217;s parent Alphabet turned into the biggest profitable shareholder after SpaceX&#8217;s IPO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabet\u2019s decade-old gamble on Elon Musk\u2019s space company has delivered a lucrative return, turning Google\u2019s parent company into the largest institutional shareholder following SpaceX\u2019s blockbuster initial public offering (IPO). Citing quarterly regulatory disclosures, news agency Reuters reports that Alphabet held a position valued at approximately $94.2 billion at the end of June. The valuation stems from an original $900 million investment made in SpaceX back in 2015 \u2013 representing a huge gain of more than 100 times its starting capital.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX completed an $86 billion public listing in June, providing the first clear public window into the enormous stakes accumulated by early institutional backers while the rocket and satellite company operated as a private startup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabet\u2019s decade-old gamble on Elon Musk\u2019s space company has delivered a lucrative return, turning Google\u2019s parent company into the largest institutional shareholder following SpaceX\u2019s blockbuster initial public offering (IPO). Citing quarterly regulatory disclosures, news agency Reuters reports that Alphabet held a position valued at approximately $94.2 billion at the end of June. The valuation stems from an original $900 million investment made in SpaceX back in 2015 \u2013 representing a huge gain of more than 100 times its starting capital. SpaceX completed an $86 billion public listing in June, providing the first clear public window into the enormous stakes accumulated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1029312,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029311\/revisions\/1029312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}