Google Co-founder Secretly Spent $100 Million on Flying Car Project: Report

Larry Page’s ventures—named Zee.Aero and Kitty Hawk—bet on electric motors that have seen new developments thanks to the electric car industry.
Google Co-founder Secretly Spent $100 Million on Flying Car Project: Report
Alphabet CEO Larry Page speaks at the Fortune Global Forum in San Francisco, Monday, Nov. 2, 2015. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
Petr Svab
6/9/2016
Updated:
10/5/2018

Google co-founder Larry Page has been secretly funding two startup companies developing flying cars.

Page, himself worth just shy of $37 billion, has poured at least $100 million into one of the companies, Bloomberg Businessweek reported.

But he didn’t want to be publicly associated with the companies.

Flying cars have been a strong obsession of technology-oriented people for at least a century.

With the proliferation of cars and planes, dreamers have been predicting a combination of both—an affordable small plane, easy to take off, and easy to fly—and many have attempted to construct one.

But, so far, all have ultimately failed.