Tesla CEO (CEO), SpaceX founder and CEO Musk has just been named Time Magazine's 2021 Person of the Year.
During the year, his electric car company became the world's most valuable automaker, and his rocket company carried national crews soaring on the edge of space. Time believes that Musk's work in space and electric vehicles, as well as his proposed plans for a human trip to Mars, and investments in cryptocurrencies have created a huge topic of conversation, and his maverick style and every move has attracted attention, not only the topic, but also the global economy.
Musk "brought government and industry to his ambitions." A few years ago he was often derided as unrealistic, but now his SpaceX space company is NASA's most frequent partner, and his Twitter speeches often determine the stock market the next day.
Time uses these words to describe Musk: clowns, geniuses, leaders, visionaries, industrialists, performers, scoundrels, and a crazy mix of Edison, Barnum (the father of modern PR), Carnegie, and Dr. Manhattan (DC superheroes). "Musk has spent his life challenging haters; now, it seems like he can finally make them understand where they are."
Musk, the world's richest man, doesn't have a house, but he puts satellites into orbit and runs them on solar energy, drives his own cars that don't need gasoline, and dreams of colonizing Mars as he sweeps the globe.
For Musk, 2021 is undoubtedly a representative year, becoming the world's richest man with a reputation, and is also a participant in robots, solar energy, cryptocurrencies, climate, brain-computer chips, and high-speed transportation in underground tunnels, every sentence is sought after by fans, and even affects the stock market.
Tesla's market capitalization has topped $1 trillion this year, more than the market capitalizations of Ford Motor and General Motors combined. Tesla has avoided supply chain issues better than many of its competitors while pushing many consumers to switch to electric vehicles and pushing traditional automakers to shift their focus to electric vehicles.
Time pointed out that Musk's rocket company SpaceX surpassed Boeing to grasp the future of American spaceflight, while Musk's Tesla pioneered the electric car market, grasped two-thirds of the market share, had a market capitalization of up to $1 trillion, and became the richest ordinary citizen in history with a net asset value of more than $250 billion.
Musk is Time Magazine's Person of the Year for 2021. He created solutions to existential crises; he embodied the possibilities and dangers of the tech giants era; he drove society's boldest disruptive change," said Edward Felsenthal, the magazine's editor-in-chief. Editors chose Lindbergh as Person of the Year in 1927 to commemorate his historic first solo flight across the Atlantic. ”
Musk has long been an outspoken and controversial figure. After he was named Time's Person of the Year, his admirers praised him, while liberals accused him of being anti-union and expressed dislike for his vast wealth, his opposition to tax hikes and his approach to climate change.
One of Musk's most controversial events this year was his vulgar insult to Senator Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon, on Twitter for Wyden's support for a billionaire tax.
Recently, Musk tweeted about cryptocurrencies and influencer stocks by hosting The Saturday Night Live show, causing their value to fluctuate dramatically. Musk keeps making headlines and has amassed more than 66 million followers on Twitter.
Musk said on Twitter on the 10th that he is "considering" resigning, "I am considering quitting all my work and becoming a full-time influencer (full-time Internet celebrity), what do you think," Musk said on Twitter, but did not elaborate. It's unclear if Musk is actually going to resign from his various positions.
Does Musk really not want to do it? He said on an earnings call in January that he was expected to be Tesla's CEO for "a few more years, and that "it would be nice to have a little more free time on hand than working day and night from getting up to bed to going to bed seven days a week." It was too tight. ”
Last month, he asked his fans on Twitter if they should sell his 10 percent stake in Tesla, and most agreed. He has since sold nearly $12 billion worth of Tesla stock. Musk sold another 934,091 shares of Tesla stock worth $906.5 million, monday's U.S. securities filings, and he exercised stock options to buy 2.13 million shares of Tesla stock. In the past five weeks, he has sold about 11 million shares.
Musk, 49, the most special technology operator in the past 20 years, has been keenly at the forefront of technology and engineering. His first successful career was to PayPal and make a fortune from it, but he handed over the PayPal to others, pouring all his efforts into SpaceX, Tesla, The Boring Company, and Neuralink, with incredible success.
Time's Person of the Year began in 1927 and is selected every year as an individual or a group, positive or negative, as long as the past year has had a significant impact on the world.