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"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. On December 14, Beijing time, the US "Time" magazine announced that the 2021 annual figure is Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX and CEO of Tesla. The past year can indeed be called "Musk Year", compared with the first half of the year he climbed to the world's richest man for the first time, the second half of Musk seems to have a "painting style" mutation.
The value of the body rose 9 times in one year
2021 is Musk's year
Time magazine's People of the Year selection began in 1927, and the winners can be individuals or groups, with positive or negative effects. Time magazine said in an article about Musk, "As the richest man in the world, Musk does not have a house and has been selling property lately." He puts the satellite into orbit and runs on solar energy; he drives a car of his own making that requires little gasoline and little driver. The flick of his finger can cause the stock price to skyrocket or plummet. His every word was taken as a guideline by a large group of fans. As he swept the globe he also dreamed of colonizing Mars, and his square jaw revealed indomitability. ”
In January 2021, Musk's personal net worth rose to $195 billion, surpassing Amazon CEO Bezos to become the world's richest man for the first time. At the beginning of 2020, Musk's net worth was only $27 billion, and in the next 365 days, his wealth soared, and in just one week of 2021, his wealth increased by $28 billion, equivalent to a one-day increase of $4 billion. Throughout 2021, Musk's wealth is rising. This month, Musk's personal net worth has reached $223 billion, and the second-place Bezos has widened the gap of more than 100 billion.
In April 2021, NASA awarded Elon Musk's Space X a $2.9 billion contract to build a spacecraft that would send astronauts to the moon as soon as 2024. This will be the first astronauts to land on the moon since the Apollo program.
In May 2021, Max hosted the veteran talk show Saturday Night Live, and by the end of the show, the number of online viewers on the live broadcast platform once exceeded 300,000.
In September 2021, Musk's SpaceX made history by successfully sending 4 private passengers into orbit, completing the first-ever space mission with crew.
In October 2021, car rental giant Hertz and Tesla reached a deal for 100,000 cars, and after the transaction was announced, Tesla's market value reached $1 trillion on October 25, local time.
In November 2021, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was launched from NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. This is the first time the world has launched a spacecraft to hit an asteroid in an attempt to change the asteroid's speed and path.
Sell stocks to empty properties
Masca said "I want to be an internet celebrity"
With Musk firmly occupying the throne of the world's richest man in October, his net worth climbed to $255.2 billion, making him the richest man ever on the planet. Subsequently, the gap between him and second-place Bezos has widened, and this month, the difference between the two is almost double, and the difference between Musk and himself a year ago is nearly 9 times.
In the second half of the year, Musk's painting style is somewhat messy, and the focus is no longer on his Tesla and space shuttle immigrants. A tweet last Thursday said, "I'm thinking about quitting my job and working as an influencer full-time." What do you think? In fact, in terms of traffic, Musk has certainly been an "Internet celebrity" for a long time. Now on Twitter, Musk has 66 million followers, a real top Internet celebrity, ranking 13th in the world. According to statistics, in 2021 alone, Musk will be on 74 Weibo hot searches. Some netizens joked: "The Internet has been played by Musk", "The earth can no longer tolerate him?" ”
And another big thing Musk has become a global focus this month is selling properties. Musk sold his last mansion in California for $30 million, at 891 Crystal Springs Road, Hillsboro, California, covering more than 190,000 square meters. Musk has said that this is his "last property on earth." Netizens have ridiculed that Musk has officially joined the ranks of the homeless. Musk has previously sold 5 California properties, cashed out nearly $100 million, and fulfilled his promise of "not owning any property" last year. Currently, he lives in Texas and rents a $50,000 house from SpaceX.
Musk has previously said that he does not need cash for freedom, and he will dedicate himself to Mars and Earth. Wealth is oppressive, and after selling a property, people will not attack him because he is a billionaire.
In November, Musk also sold a lot of Tesla stock, and since November 8, Musk has sold a total of 11.03 million tesla shares, worth nearly $12 billion, about 76.4 billion yuan. And the day before Musk sold Tesla stock, his brother and Tesla board member, Kimbal Musk, sold about $109 million worth of Tesla stock.
Many netizens said that the selling of real estate and stocks is like Musk preparing for his retirement, but shrewd netizens analyzed that Musk's emptying of real estate is actually to avoid taxes. Without a property in California, he is no longer a California resident and can avoid California's personal income tax and capital gains tax. Insider estimates the move could save him $2.5 billion. The sell-off is to save other companies, such as SpaceX, which has gone bankrupt several times.
Musk is bullish on The Chinese economy
It is worth mentioning that as the person of the year, Musk's largest company Tesla has performed well in the Chinese market this year, and he recently said at the event that China's future economic scale will likely grow to 2 to 3 times that of the United States. On the same day, Musk video attended a media summit, and the audience asked how he viewed China and the United States. Musk said that the United States was the world's largest economy more than a hundred years ago, and China's economy will probably be 2 to 3 times the size of the United States in the future. "Now we're going to develop into a new situation where China's future economy is likely to be 2 or 3 times the size of the U.S., and it's going to be a different world." Tesla's relationship with China is good, but that doesn't mean I'm speaking for China, just as I wouldn't speak for the United States or anything else. But I do feel like we're moving towards an interesting and different world. I hope we can remember that we are all human beings and let's try to build the most positive relationships possible and work for the common prosperity of all humanity. ”
Recently, the Association released China's car sales data, and Tesla's wholesale sales in November exceeded 50,000 vehicles again, reaching 52,859 vehicles, which is the third consecutive month that Tesla has exceeded 50,000 monthly sales. As of November, Tesla's Shanghai Gigafactory has delivered more than 400,000 vehicles in 2021, reaching 413283 units, an increase of 242% year-on-year. It is worth noting that at the same time, China has also become the world's largest high-potential new energy vehicle market. According to the Association of Passenger Vehicles, China's new energy passenger vehicles already account for 51% of the world's share, and in October the figure was as high as 61%.