[sweettea]

I don't think this is correct. As far as I understand it, Elon/SpaceX did attempt a previous investment in satellite internet, but it had died long before Starlink came to be in 2014.

[andsoitis]

Indeed. Starlink was publicly announced in January 2015 with the opening of the SpaceX satellite development facility in Redmond, Washington

Full surrounding history at Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink