"Almost no one can match his impact on life on Earth, or even on extraterrestrial life." Time magazine editor-in-chief Edward Feltenthal said of Musk.
Time magazine's People of the Year selection began in 1927, and the winners can be individuals or groups, with positive or negative effects. In 2020, the winners were U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Harris.
On Monday morning, local time in the United States, The world's richest man, Musk, had another honorary title: Time Magazine's 2021 Person of the Year.
Time magazine described Musk in a cover article: The richest man on the planet doesn't have a single real estate and has recently sold off his stock. He puts satellites into orbit, makes full use of solar energy, and drives a car of his own creation that not only doesn't use gasoline, but even the driver barely uses it. At the snap of his fingers, the stock market jumped up and down. Every word he said was followed by a large number of fans. While he crossed the earth, he was also dreaming of Mars, with an indomitable will and image.
The article also refers to 2021 as the year Musk broke through all kinds of shackles, and his success in various fields has made those who have questioned him for a long time finally shut up. In April, SpaceX was awarded an exclusive contract from NASA to reintroduce American astronauts to the moon since 1972; Musk starred in "Saturday Night Live" in May; hertz car rental in October shouted that it wanted to order 100,000 Teslas; and helped NASA perform the first planetary orbit intervention experiment and study cosmic X-rays... Wait a minute. Not to mention that while he shook the market with his massive sale of Tesla shares, he also expressed anger on social media against the Democratic lawmakers who triggered this wave of stock sales.
Time magazine uses these words to describe Musk: a clown, a genius, a leader, a visionary, an industrialist, a performer, a scoundrel; a crazy mix of Edison (inventor), Barnum (the father of modern PR), Carnegie (entrepreneur), and Dr. Manhattan (a superhero, scientist in DC Comics).
Time magazine also portrayed the "genius" behind the article.
Tesla has been in a state of crisis for years. With production behind schedule and at risk of a break in the capital chain, Musk spent most of his time on the factory floor in April 2018.
2021 is a landmark year for Musk, who has attracted worldwide attention for becoming the world's richest man, which relies considerably on the soaring stock price of Tesla.
On October 25, 2021, Tesla received an order for 100,000 vehicles with a total value of $4.4 billion from the car rental company Hertz, and tesla's stock price soared, with a market value of more than $1,000 billion. Tesla thus became the sixth stock in the United States to have a market capitalization of more than $1 trillion after Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Facebook.
After becoming Time Magazine's 2021 Person of the Year, Musk retweeted Time magazine-related tweets and wrote a comment "Thank you."