That Elon Musk guy definitely has a knack for finding what's profitable! He funded Paypal when online shopping was booming, funded SpaceX when state actors began having issues with space-related costs, with the USA having to buy Russian engines and Russians having to rely on Soviet era hardware, and finally created the Tesla company and you see popping around articles about how autonomous cars are set to become the norm by 2040 and change radically our way of life and consumption (
here's an example about the real estate market)!
I don't know who's sending him messages from the future, but he definitely has a double agent texting him pages from a 2086 history textbook