If you look at the major private space companies though, Space X, Blue Origin, even Virgin Galactic, they all have one thing in common. A tech billionaire who

If you look at the major private space companies though, Space X, Blue Origin, even Virgin Galactic, they all have one thing in common. A tech billionaire who decided he wanted to go to space. It's probably because there's very little money in it from the short term... but there just isn't a whole lot of money going towards radical start ups trying to go to space or build a hyperloop.