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You seem to have it backwards. He became a billionaire as a consequence of creating immensely valuable companies, not the other way around. And he risked the entirety of his previously earned fortune in order to so. These are facts that you can verify for yourself.

That he's not highly motivated by money or luxury, at least at this stage in his life, is obvious for anyone to see.

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Yes clearly the billions of dollars, millions of adoring fans, and immense power he's acquired are an unfortunate side effect of him being a good samaritan.

No one claimed such a ridiculous thing?

The fact is that no one in history that has great things for humanity did so without having some degree of mixed motivations.

There's no inherent contradiction in wanting to make lots of money, become popular, become powerful, and do good things for other people all at the same time. In fact, it's a very common set of motivations among smart people.

Maybe there is room between the two extremes?

>That he's not highly motivated by money or luxury, at least at this stage in his life, is obvious for anyone to see.

Really? Are you aware of his gigantic compensation plan at Tesla? The crypto price manipulations? And his lifestyle is anything but ascetic.

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