Elon Musk is known to be able to move the market and value of cryptocurrencies with a single tweet.
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Time magazine on Monday named Tesla founder and space entrepreneur Elon Musk its Person of the Year, capping a roller coaster in 2021 for the tech mogul.
The brave 50-year-old South African man with big ambitions has surpassed his rival in the space race and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to become the richest man in the world this year.
In October, his electric car company skyrocketed to over a trillion dollars, and over the past year, his company SpaceX has partnered with the US space agency NASA to make it happen. Various missions include slamming a rocket into an asteroid in a test run to redirect any future earths into space rocks.
Time editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal tweeted: “Person of the Year is an influential figure and few individuals have had more influence than @elonmusk on life on Earth and beyond.” .
Musk has appeared a lot in American culture in recent years. He’s amassed 66 million Twitter followers and was a guest host on the hit late-night comedy show Saturday Night Live in May.
He talks ambitiously about his interest in colonizing Mars and plans orbital flights next year as part of SpaceX’s plans to return to the Moon.
And he is known to move the market and value of cryptocurrencies with just one tweet.
But his main socioeconomic influence today is thanks to his groundbreaking electric cars.
“Our intention with Tesla has always been that we will be an example to the car industry and hope that they also make electric cars so we can accelerate our transition to sustainable energy.” solid,” Musk told Time in an interview with Person of the Year Announcement.
But outer space is also one of Musk’s top ambitions.
“His goal was to make humanity a multi-planetary species,” Time contributor Jeffrey Kluger said in the video.
Time first awarded Person of the Year in 1927.
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