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Good luck is coming, and I can't stop it.
A few days after the start of the Year of the Tiger, Musk ushered in the double happiness of "national certification".
On February 10, Beijing time, the website of the National Academy of Engineering of the United States released a list of supplementary academicians, and a total of 111 academicians and 22 foreign academicians were selected. One of the most notable is Elon Musk, who was selected for his undergraduate degree.
Musk, as one of the most influential global innovation leaders after Jobs, has a lot of labels on his body. This selection also means that in addition to wealth, technology, Internet celebrities, and currency circles, Musk has gained another identity in academia.
In addition to personal reputation, on Tuesday, U.S. President Joe Biden recognized Tesla as the largest electric car maker in the United States. This certification from the official also makes founder Musk very proud. Although in terms of actual data, Tesla has long been in the top spot.
On the one hand, it is to gain the reputation of the academic academician label, and on the other hand, its subsidiaries have been recognized by the president's honorary recognition. The double honor is undoubtedly Musk's biggest gift for the beginning of the year.
01 Undergraduate Academician
On the morning of February 10, Beijing time, the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) released the list of additional academicians of the National Academy of Engineering in 2021, of which Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk were selected. Musk retweeted the NAE Tweet article to say "thank you very much."
A total of 111 academicians and 22 foreign academicians were selected this time. In addition to Musk, there are Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, LG Energy Solutions Michigan President Gray Denise, and General Electric Smart Grid Business Head McDonald John.
However, in the biography column, Musk, who was elected as an academician with a bachelor's degree, was called a real power faction by many netizens on Twitter.
Although he only has a bachelor's degree, it does not mean that Musk is a scum. As a new generation of leaders in Silicon Valley, like the high school education of Bill Gates and Jobs, the undergraduate degree is also the result of Musk's choice to drop out of school to start a business.
Musk, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, earned a double degree in economics and physics during his undergraduate degree. He was then admitted to Stanford University's Ph.D. program in materials science, but he dropped out of school after only two days of enrollment to devote himself to Silicon Valley entrepreneurship.
It may be the academic genes of Silicon Valley leaders, such as Bill Gates, who dominated the PC era, Jobs in the mobile era, and Musk, who traveled in the space age.
As for the reasons for the selection, NAE wrote: "SpaceX founder, CEO and principal engineer Elon Musk has made breakthroughs in the design, engineering, manufacturing and operation of reusable launch vehicles and sustainable transportation and energy systems.
This means that Musk's advanced space exploration is no longer the PPT company that has been evaluated by the outside world in the past few years, and even after Jobs, it has once again proved to the outside world that Silicon Valley entrepreneurs have never stopped innovating and exploring.
For Musk personally, the academician honor will also open another circle tag for Musk. Before the academic circle, Musk mainly made a lot of achievements in three aspects: business technology, network popularity, and wealth index.
In the field of business technology, because of its company include Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink and other cutting-edge areas of innovative companies, known as the live-action version of Iron Man.
In terms of internet popularity, because of its deviant remarks, out-of-the-ordinary ideological views and behavior styles, including but not limited to Twitter governance of enterprises, social speculation and other behaviors, it is known as an Internet celebrity entrepreneur.
In terms of wealth index, sitting on new energy vehicles, space travel business, brain-computer interface and other cutting-edge innovation leaders, the business behavior of advanced manufacturing trends has also greatly accelerated the speed of obtaining wealth returns, accumulating as the richest man on the earth in just a few years.
When selected as Time Magazine's Person of the Year in 2021, editor-in-chief Edward Feltenthal described Musk as "almost no one can match his impact on life on Earth, or even on alien life." ”
In the award speech, words such as clowns, geniuses, leaders, visionaries, industrialists, performers, and scoundrels were used to describe Musk. Musk can be seen in every adjective, and now Musk has added an "undergraduate academician" to himself in the academic circle with strength.
02 Forced confessions from the president
As Musk's two most exposed star companies, Space X and Tesla. The former brought Academic Honor to Musk, while the latter successfully "coerced" US President Biden with strength and public opinion earlier.
According to Reuters reported on February 7, US President Joe Biden publicly acknowledged Tesla's role in the US electric vehicle manufacturing industry on Tuesday, while Tesla CEO Elon Musk repeatedly complained that Tesla was ignored by US authorities.
In more than a year since he became president, Biden has avoided mentioning Tesla when discussing the electric car industry. Musk was unhappy that an electric car summit hosted by the White House last September did not invite Tesla, saying the White House was biased against Tesla.
On Jan. 26, the White House invited ceminos of 10 large U.S. companies to discuss Biden's Build Back Better Act, which included GM CEO Mary Bara and Ford CEO Jim Farley, and Tesla was once again ignored.
The neglect annoyed some of Musk's 72 million followers on Twitter, as well as Musk himself. Then, under the Tweet video of Biden releasing a conversation with GM, Musk commented that "T begins, A ends, and there is an ESL in the middle" (connected to TESLA Tesla), and then angrily angers Biden, comparing it to a "stupid and bad clown".
Later, Musk tweeted again: "For unknown reasons, the president of the United States cannot say the word 'Tesla'. ”
The statements and the U.S. president's selective disregard for Tesla, a big influencer with 72 million followers, culminated in a petition launched and signed by more than 33,000 people on change.org website in January.
The petition asks U.S. President Joe Biden to recognize Tesla's leadership in electric vehicles. The petitioners accused Biden of ignoring Tesla because it had no union organization and supporting traditional Detroit automakers because they had unions.
"This is an insult to Americans who work for Tesla," the petition wrote, calling on Biden to "do the right thing and acknowledge Tesla's efforts to make electric cars possible."
Compared with the past, dissatisfaction with Biden is often mainly through tweets and wars of words. The petition is the first large-scale public effort by the American public to underscore their argument that the company and its investment in clean energy vehicles have been ignored by the government.
The petition ended more than a year after Biden was elected president on Tuesday, with the first public speech to praise Tesla. Because the content that mentions Tesla lasts for 3 seconds, it is also called Biden's 3-second condescending on Twitter by many Tesla fans.
In those three seconds, Biden said: "From iconic companies like General Motors and Ford, which are expanding the production of new electric vehicles, to Tesla, the largest electric vehicle maker in our country, to young companies like electric car maker Rivian and electric bus maker Proterra, manufacturing is returning to the United States in a few decades." ”
Later on Tuesday, Musk thanked Tesla fans on Twitter, arguing that their petition "played an important role." Fans tweeted with Musk that we won this round.
03 Made by Biden
This time Biden finally publicly acknowledged Tesla's leadership position in the US electric vehicle market, which is not unrelated to Tesla's strong performance in global electric vehicles in the past year, and the Biden administration has obviously seen the return opportunity for the US manufacturing industry behind Tesla's strong development.
The contradictory unions between the two will obviously only be an episode in Biden's proposed plan for the return of American manufacturing. For Biden, how to take measures to restore the US manufacturing industry at a time when the global COVID-19 epidemic has disrupted the reconstruction of the world's supply chain system is his focus.
Not only to condescend to Tesla for 3 seconds to show goodwill, in Biden's plan, guide companies to put important strategic materials in the United States to produce, chips are also the top priority.
At the White House press conference in January this year, Intel announced its plan to invest $20 billion in Ohio to build two advanced chip factories, and said that it would invest 100 billion US dollars in the next 10 years to build the world's largest semiconductor production base. Biden, on the other hand, is happy, seeing the project as one of the classic examples of his "Made in America" operation.
"25, 30 years ago, we could say 'Made in Ohio,' 'Made in the USA.'" Biden and Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger said at a White House press conference.
In Biden's view, the project will "change the game," reinvigorate hollowed-out industrial sectors in the Midwest, and address supply chain bottlenecks.
It can be seen that with the rise of Chinese manufacturing, as well as the outbreak of the epidemic in the United States, inflation, and supply chain crisis, the number one power seems to have the idea of revitalizing the manufacturing industry.
Because before, whether it was in the market openers or in supermarket chains such as Walmart, it was often seen that the labels of many goods were written with the words "made in China", which has brought a lot of blows to Americans. So the United States began to encourage the return of manufacturing, and made good progress.
According to the data released by the relevant institutions in the United States, the number of jobs brought by the return of manufacturing and overseas investment (FDI) in 2020 reached about 160,000, which also made the number of US employees rarely exceed the 1 million mark since 2010. Among them, the funds brought by the return of manufacturing are 100% higher than those of FDI, which is also the first time since 2013 that the repatriation funds have surpassed FDI, which has led to the implementation of the repatriation program in the United States, so that the number of local companies and overseas investment companies has soared to 1484.
Obviously, in the next few years, Tesla, a new energy vehicle in a period of rapid growth, is something that the Biden administration cannot ignore. At the same time, as the global leader in electric vehicles, Tesla is also actively entering some countries such as India and Turkey, and the pace of its globalization has accelerated significantly.
Behind Musk's double happiness is also the Biden administration's change in the past financial hegemony strategy, a pair of financial + manufacturing of the global strategy is gradually unfolding.