I think this might be the most notable thing about Elon Musk. He's made it, but he hasn't turned to politics or investing or behind the scenes activities. He seems very drawn to a crazy lifestyle.
I’d also argue he technically is investing, given all of the companies he’s starting, even OpenAI started from his investment. There’s Neuralink, Boring Company, and probably others. Though in Musk’s case it might be his autism/adhd.
Of course he has turned to politics, just not in the conventional way - he's not a native US citizen, so he can't do a Trump and run for President. Instead he's messing around with Twitter by allowing the far-right to run completely rampant on it.
It appears to me that he has absolutely turned to politics, if you look at his tweets, they are almost entirely political these days.
He wanted to buy Twitter purely for political reasons, and said as much.
Page and Brin wanted to organize the world’s info. I think they accomplished that and I suspect the googleplex can answer all their questions.