Elon Musk, who is also the founder and CEO of SpaceX, recently passed Amazon founder Jeff Bezos as the world’s richest person.
Calling him “clown, genius, adlord, visionary, industrialist, showman”, time The magazine has named Tesla CEO Elon Musk as Person of the Year for 2021.
Mr Musk, who is also the founder and CEO of space exploration company SpaceX, recently passed Amazon founder Jeff Bezos as the world’s richest man as the rising price of Tesla took his net worth to nearly $300 billion. delivered. He owns about 17% of Tesla shares, which sold on Monday for about $1,000.
time Musk cited the breadth of his efforts from founding SpaceX in 2002 to building the world’s most valuable car company Tesla in addition to his hand in building the alternative energy company SolarCity. The magazine emphasizes that its annual acknowledgment is not an award, but, “a recognition of the person who made the most impact on the events of the year, for good or for bad.”
The magazine also noted that Mr. Musk garners an army of loyal followers (and investors) on social media, where he sees the powerful and regulators attempting to control an executive that is far from traditional. Before his 66 million followers on Twitter, he provides the world with weirdos and even drives his own followers and investors crazy with the hustle and bustle of the market.
Although it only became profitable in recent years, Tesla is far from the world’s most valuable car company, crossing the $1 trillion market capitalization threshold at one point this year. Detroit heavyweights Ford and General Motors combined are worth less than $200 billion.
Mr Musk said last month that SpaceX would attempt to launch its futuristic, bullet-shaped starship into orbit in January. NASA has contracted with SpaceX to use Starship to deliver astronauts to the lunar surface in early 2025. Mr Musk said he plans to use reusable ships to land people on Mars.
time Mr Musk recently admitted to his 66 million Twitter followers that half of his tweets were “made on a porcelain throne.” In his profile of the provocative CEO, time Those toilet tweets went into detail before chronicling one of the storms: “This is the man who aspires to save our planet and get us a new person to live in.”
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