Jimu news reporter Sun Zhe
On December 13, local time, the US "Time" magazine announced the 2021 person of the year on social media, and Tesla CEO and SpaceX founder Elon Musk was elected, which means that he has another title at the end of this year. Looking back on this whole year, the new world's richest man, who was evaluated by the media as "one finger can affect Wall Street", can be described as "unlimited scenery".
With the flick of a finger, it can cause stock price fluctuations
The article begins: "The world's richest man, who has no house, has been selling his property lately. He puts the satellites into orbit and runs them on solar energy; he drives his own cars, which use no gasoline and hardly require drivers. With the flick of his finger, he will cause the stock price to skyrocket or plummet. ”
Elon Musk Source: Time Magazine
"Almost no one can match his impact on life on Earth, or even on extraterrestrial life." Time magazine editor-in-chief Feltenthal commented on Musk in this way, which further explains why he was elected as this year's person of the year.
Screenshot of related reports (Source: Time Magazine)
Time magazine's selection of The Man of the Year began in 1927 with the aim of "selecting individuals or groups that have a significant impact on news and people's lives," either positively or negatively.
He has been obsessed with science since childhood and is a gifted child
Born in June 1971 in Pretoria, South Africa, Musk was born to an Anglo-Dutch father who worked as a mechanical and electrical engineer in South Africa, and his mother worked as a model and a writer and nutritionist.
Influenced by his father, Musk has been obsessed with science and technology since childhood. As a child, he was very shy, but he liked to read very much, and often spent a lot of time reading science fiction.
In 1981, at the age of 10, Musk used his pocket money and his father's financial support to buy his first computer and teach himself programming.
In 1992, Musk transferred from Queen's University in Ontario, Canada, to the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania to study economics. During his college years, Musk began to pay close attention to the Internet, clean energy, and space, three areas that affect the future development of mankind.
In 1995, after earning a bachelor's degree in economics and physics, the 24-year-old Musk entered Stanford University to pursue a doctorate in materials science and applied physics, but on the second day after enrolling, he decided to leave school to start a business.
In 2021, it belongs to Musk
The article pointed out that 2021 belongs to Musk.
Many people have dreams of space as children, but Musk has shone his dreams into reality.
In April, Musk's SpaceX won NASA's first exclusive contract to send an American astronaut to the moon since 1972, with the prospect of sending astronauts to the moon in 2024;
Musk in Germany (Source: Ap News Agency)
In September, SpaceX made history when the Falcon 9 launch vehicle was launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, putting the first "all-civilian" crew in history into orbit;
In October, car rental giant Hertz announced that it had ordered 100,000 electric vehicles from Tesla for its fleet, an order worth $4.2 billion that sent Tesla's stock price soaring, and musk topped the world's richest man shortly after;
In November, NASA launched the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft, which was undertaken by Musk's SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, nasa's first planetary defense mission.
Success was not easy to come by, and I slept on the factory floor all night
On June 29, 2010, Tesla was listed on the NASDAQ. The report pointed out that since Tesla was listed, it has experienced countless battles with the "crisis mode".
With production behind schedule and the risk of a break in the capital chain, Musk spent most of April 2018 sleeping on the factory floor trying to solve the assembly line problem.
As soon as he woke up, he first looked at the monitor on the wall, and then he started checking the system, redoing the code, solving the problem. He really is a man who leads by example and always keeps his biggest problems to himself, so we sometimes don't feel embarrassed to complain about tired work. Musk's adviser, Omead Afshar, said.
"In June of that year, on the occasion of Musk's 47th birthday, he paused for a moment to catch his breath, took a bite of the cake he bought from the grocery store, and then returned to the paint shop." This description in the text seems to echo the first paragraph of "his square jaw reveals an indomitable energy".
Tesla Model 3 body structure (Source: Time Magazine)
The world's richest man has a full personality, loves "surfing" and "fighting words"
Time magazine used words like "genius," "leader," and "visionary" to describe Musk, but that wasn't all he was. The CEO also particularly likes to "scare around" with others on social media, and has "fought verbal battles" with Amazon CEO Bezos several times on Twitter.
In September, it was reported that Bezos had invested in an anti-aging technology company. It is reported that the startup is mainly focused on a "somatic reprogramming technology", which can theoretically restore the vitality of the body, delay aging, and thus extend human lifespan. In response, Musk tweeted: "If it fails, I think he (Bezos) will sue Death!" ”
According to Bloomberg news, in October this year, Musk surpassed Bezos in value and became the world's richest man. As soon as the news came out, Musk made a comment under the tweet sent by Bezos, and there was only a silver emoji in the comment.
Musk commented under a tweet from Bezos
In addition to "love", Musk is a "10G surfer" in the eyes of many Chinese netizens.
At the beginning of November this year, Musk used Chinese to post a "seven-step poem" by Cao Zhi on Weibo, and within one day alone, Musk repeatedly appeared on Weibo's hot search, which was jokingly called "mastering the traffic password" by netizens.
Later on the 13th, after Time magazine announced this year's Person of the Year on social media, Musk commented under the relevant tweet "Thank you!" ”。 Dreaming of colonizing Mars, how he will expand his business to the world in the future is exciting.
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