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Right - it's difficult to assess what he did with those two given who he's become. I believe in both cases he heavily invested his own money (which he didn't need to ever spend, he could have happily lived on a beach for the rest of his life) to the point of almost being ruined. Space X in particular was one more failed launch off being finished at one point - and that would have been the end of him as well.
I think they're both important companies that wouldn't have moved so quickly without whatever it was he injected. Shame (for him, I guess? personally I'm not too bothered) he seems set on ruining his own legacy so completely and so quickly.