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You are a random billionaire (i.e. not Mark Zuckerberg) with a billion dollars.

You could: A. Buy Instagram. B. Build SpaceX from scratch.

Most of them would probably buy instagram. :(

To be fair, it's not so simple.

Elon Musk is an exceptional individual, he has a degree in Physics and he taught himself engineering and "rocket science". Not everyone is capable of replicating what he has done, regardless of the money involved. The average case of a billionaire dumping money into aerospace ends up with the billionaire having less billions and nothing much of consequence occurring in aerospace.

Well ... yeah. I have a bit of experience buying things, but know nothing about creating and running companies that design and build rockets. I'd probably buy Instagram too since the rocket thing would die in my ineptitude.

what about Jeff Bezos (ok, he's EE [yay, EE!]), or Richard Brandson (or it's really Rutan's brainchild)? OK, Virgin Galatic is child-play next to SpaceX, but it still demonstrate that billionaires can invest in AA.

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