[JetSpiegel]

But... SpaceX is a corporation, so the main point is in fact making money.

[bogs_carut]

I'm not certain that assumption is necessarily correct.

Elon Musk seems more focused on affecting meaningful change and driving technology forward. He's using corporations as a vehicle to do that and making money is an incidental side-effect.

If profit was his primary motive, there would have been many other ways to invest his fortune from PayPal which entailed far lower risk and potentially significant gain.

[aryastark]

private corporation. Big difference. They also do not plan on going public until their Mars program is established.

[JetSpiegel]

Fair enough. I didn't know they were private.