With all do respect, he obviously raced to the last minute so he could take off before Jeff Bezos. To get publicity and make money. He really didn't even go into space.
Lot of hooey. These billionaire bastards should be treated with scorn. Like you say, not even real space flight. Just a high flight. They were doing more than that 60 years ago.
Commercial jets regularly fly 35K feet. This was 50K feet. 100km is the beginning of inner space.