Recently, Time magazine selected the 2021 Person of the Year, the world's richest man Musk won this honor, attracted the attention of the global media, "Time" Person of the Year is the world's most important figure, but it seems that no one like Musk, after being elected as the Person of the Year, attracted so much attention.
Time's global reach
"Time" first proposed the annual person selection can be traced back to 1927, the selection of the world's most influential people this year, as long as the "influence" is enough can be selected, here whether right or wrong, good or bad, nearly a hundred years of history of the era of the annual people so attracted much attention, then let's learn more about which celebrities have been selected.
Time of the Year Person of the Year Inventory (Partial)
1930 Person of the Year: Mahatma Gandhi
1937 Person of the Year: Chiang Kai-shek
1938 Person of the Year: Hitler
1939 Person of the Year: Stalin
1963 Person of the Year: Martin Luther King Jr
1978 Person of the Year: Deng Xiaoping
2007 Person of the Year: Putin
2008 Person of the Year: Obama
2010 Person of the Year: Zuckerberg
2015 Person of the Year: Merkel
2016 Person of the Year: Trump
2019 Person of the Year: Greta Thunberg
2020 Person of the Year: Joe Biden, Kamala Harris
2021 Person of the Year: Musk
Throughout the annual person selection most of the selected people are political and economic figures, of which the president of the United States accounted for a large part, "Time" in fact, there are very few people in the field of science and technology, the last time the technology industry was selected or Zuckerberg, this year Musk was selected can be said to be deserved, there is no opponent in terms of personal influence.
Time selection basis
There is also a detailed introduction of Musk in the cover article of "Time", which can be summarized as Musk has a large number of fans, and every sentence he says can cause an uproar on the Internet, and even affect the stock market and the Bitcoin market.
At the same time, Musk is also the world's richest man, the most surprising thing is that Musk does not have a single property, Musk builds rockets, launches satellites, develops solar energy, builds electric vehicles, and can be said to be the leader of new energy vehicles and automatic driving.
Musk shut up all the doubts
Musk has an amazing influence in the world, which is also due to Musk's series of successful performances, at the beginning of his tesla and Space X, the outside world questioned him continuously, especially after Tesla was listed, it was frequently shorted.
But Tesla's strong performance gave skeptics a loud slap, and the shorts not only lost a lot of money, Tesla's market value also exceeded a trillion US dollars.
Space X development is even more amazing, get NASA big contract, develop space tourism, launch star chain, research and development of starships, etc., as well as the future of human landing on Mars rhetoric, to know that it is now the world's richest man, Space X will bring Greater wealth to Musk, and even the outside world predicts that Musk's personal wealth will reach trillions.