Billionaire investor Ron Baron, founder and CEO of Baron Capital, says SpaceX could be worth as much as $50 trillion in ten years, according to a new interview on the Columbia Business School. SpaceX's current market cap is $2.06 trillion, according to Yahoo Finance AlphaSpace data. Baron estimates Starlink alone could be worth around $14 trillion to $15 trillion, and that the space-based data center business could grow to a multiple of Starlink's size. He said he thinks investors could make at least 20 or 30 times their money.
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