01 The most influential person on the planet
If someone asks me now which person has the most influence on Earth,
I would say without hesitation: Elon Musk.
Recently, the news of the world's richest man Musk has exploded again, according to the latest figures released by Forbes this month, Musk currently has a value of $219 billion (about 303.549 billion Singapore dollars).
On April 14, Musk proposed a $54.20 per share, for a total of $44 billion to acquire Twitter, with the intention of going private.
In his acquisition statement, he noted that "remarks ... The cornerstone, and Twitter, is the digital city square that debates important issues about the future of humanity. I want to make it better than ever, including adding new features to enhance the product, making algorithms open source to increase trust, defeating spam bots, and being able to authenticate all humans. I look forward to working with Twitter and the user community to unlock the company's huge potential." ”
The acquisition of Twitter has only just begun. On April 28, Musk tweeted, "Next I'm going to buy Coca-Cola and put the 'cocaine' back in." He was referring to the original formulation of Coca-Cola when it was introduced in 1886 as a medical treatment for various diseases. When Buffett heard the news, did he consider selling his shares to Musk? Of course, his rhetoric of buying Coca-Cola may be a joke.
02 Superpowers and Banknote Abilities
The reason why I say that he is the most influential is not because he is the richest man, but because I think he is also a scientist and entrepreneur who can single-handedly push human technological civilization forward for decades.
Despite the controversy surrounding this man, he is the most successful innovative entrepreneur after Apple's founder, Steve Jobs. He is not only a scientific genius, but also has a business acumen, but also has the dream of the universe, and what is more valuable is that he is gradually realizing his own idea, which is a superpower to explore the unknown territory of mankind in the future, and his superpower and banknote ability are somewhat like Marvel's Iron Man.
From a self-made to a billionaire, from self-taught design to building the world's most advanced rockets and spaceships, from investing in PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX, Project Starlink and Bitcoin, he has managed to create a huge business empire, and without a doubt, he is one of the most avant-garde venture capitalists and most successful entrepreneurs on the planet.
He is very much like Jobs at that time, using his own strength to make some technology industries quickly update and iterate. When the iPhone turned out, who could have imagined that this electronic product could quickly push mankind into the era of mobile Internet, but Jobs's departure took away the artistic quality of Apple products, and his successors could only make Apple products faster and stronger, but they could not be perfect.
Tesla is now the most successful well-known electric vehicle brand on the planet, you can't just think of it as a new energy vehicle, Tesla is a product with Musk's technology genes, just like Apple products contain Jobs's art genes, Musk will definitely apply high-tech such as autopilot and starlink navigation to Tesla in the future. In the near future, you may not have to get a driver's license, driving a Tesla is as convenient as the average person using an iPad, which is one of Musk's dreams.
03 Beyond the American Dream
Musk is undoubtedly the representative of the contemporary realization of the American dream, but the business empire created not only spans the United States, but also flies over the earth, he disdains to roll in the earth, but uses the scientific idea to successfully realize it through commercialization, leading this era, so that competitors can only slowly follow.
People who don't know him don't know his greatness, people who don't understand him don't know how big his dreams are.
For example, this acquisition of Twitter, Musk is a big V with 80 million followers on Twitter, and often expresses opinions on hot issues on social networking platforms, and is very active, some people think that Musk's acquisition of Twitter is a personal preference, or think that Twitter is dissatisfied with Twitter's rules for speech control, but Musk definitely believes that Twitter is part of his future technology business empire.
His StarLink plan has slowly built the hardware of the satellite Internet, and his technology empire needs to form a network industry ecological platform like Apple. In the future, this industrial ecological platform needs a huge customer base, and Twitter has 1.3 billion registered users and more than 300 million active accounts, once Musk's business plan is successful, then Musk's technology industry empire will be able to compete with apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Facebook and other technology giants.
However, because Musk is known for his bold style of speech, if Musk succeeds in privatizing Twitter, it is foreseeable that Musk's company will inevitably fall into the whirlpool of political and cultural conflicts at home and abroad, so it is really difficult to predict whether the consequences of the acquisition will be a blessing or a curse.
Musk's business empire, including SpaceX and the StarLink project, can promote the progress of human technology, but the expansion of his technology empire is undoubtedly in serious conflict with the sovereign state's claims on homeland security, space security, cybersecurity and law, and his advanced commercial expansion plans are certainly greatly shackled. For most sovereign countries, it is unrealistic to completely exclude the applications and products of Musk's tech empire, and if it is rebuilt, it is costly and difficult to surpass and can only follow. If you can't refuse, you must choose to accept, reach some kind of compromise with Musk's technology empire, and do a good job of compromise and balance between national security and technology products.
04 Conclusion
The value of entrepreneurs is to realize their business dreams, and the value of scientists is to realize their own innovative dreams. Entrepreneurs and scientists are the most important assets in today's society, from the beginning of choosing to realize their dreams, they actually automatically give up the ordinary life of ordinary people, their success shapes the spirit of the times, and promotes the accumulation of social wealth and the progress of science and technology. They have lofty ambitions, but they are also controversial, and although they are arrogant, they are also difficult. The process of realizing their dreams is not only the reflection and embodiment of the value of their own lives, but also the promotion of the sublimation of the civilized society of all mankind.
Musk, as one of the most successful scientists and entrepreneurs since Jobs, did not overdo his praise.
I boldly predict that in the next few decades, everyone on the planet will use Musk's products or applications.