Elon Musk's SpaceX to put 4,000 internet satellites into orbit

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The Falcon 9 SpaceX rocket lifts off from Cape Canaveral, Florida
Elon Musk's SpaceX asks government's permission to put 4,000 internet satellites into orbit
Andrew Griffin Thursday 11 June 2015
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/elon-musks-spacex-asks-governments-permission-to-put-4000-internet-satellites-into-orbit-10314073.html

  "The tiny and cheap satellites would float around space beaming internet
   to people on Earth

   Elon Musk has asked the government to let his private space travel
   company, SpaceX, put 4,000 satellites into orbit to provide internet
   for the earth.

   The PayPal founder hopes that the satellites could take on conventional
   internet companies by sending internet signals across the globe,
   allowing it to provide cheap and fast internet even to places that have
   traditionally struggled to get connected. It hopes to find success by
   both taking customers from existing internet service providers as well
   as getting the billions of people that can't get online onto the
   internet.

   Musk has moved forward with the project by filing with the US Federal
   Communications Commission to ask to be given permission put the
   satellites into space. It was first mooted at the beginning of the
   year, but the submission was made public by the Washington Post.

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   The filing asks to start testing the satellites next year, according to
   the newspaper. After that, the service could be working in about five
   years.

   In the tests, Musk would send the satellites up on a Falcon 9 rocket,
   made by SpaceX. They would communicate with ground stations in the US,
   and establish whether those connections would be enough to send
   information from the ground to the satellites with enough speed and
   consistency to work for internet connections.

   Musk is only one of a number of entrepreneurs and companies that have
   looked to build such project, and is up against Richard Branson-backed
   OneWeb, which wants to provide a similar service. Such ventures have
   failed in the past — in the 1990s, a Bill Gates-funded company,
   Teledesic, ran up costs of $9 billion before it realised that its
   satellite-powered internet was not going to work.

   But Musk's success could be in the fact that he would be able to send
   the rockets up in SpaceX's own products, meaning that the company could
   control the whole process itself."

How would a PayPal founder find the money to put 4,000 satellite's into orbit
and operate and run a business with ?