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by javis 4711 days ago
Mark Shuttleworth has a net worth of $500 million and has been to space. I have doubt he'll just let the project fail.

I don't see anything stopping him from jumping in at the end, getting it to the $32,000,000 mark. He has the funds.
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jamii 4711 days ago
He explicitly stated in the reddit AMA that he will let if fail.

EDIT Link - http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1j166z/hi_im_mark_shut...

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diroussel 4711 days ago
32 is a significant part of 500.

Also, surely the point of this is to develop a sustainable model, as they said they want to repeat it each year. So if there is no demand, then it should be abandoned, or rethought.

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workbench 4711 days ago
He didn't rich by writing a lot of cheques
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rbanffy 4711 days ago
No, but one of the advantages of being rich is being able to do it when you want it.
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