Elon Musk named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year 2021
Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, has been named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year 2021.
Musk, 50, made history a few times this year, including his aerospace company SpaceX completing the first all-civilian crew mission into space.
‘The richest man in the world does not own a house and has recently been selling off his fortune. He tosses satellites into orbit and harnesses the sun; he drives a car he created that uses no gas and barely needs a driver,’ Time wrote.
‘With a flick of his finger, the stock market soars or swoons. An army of devotees hangs on his every utterance. He dreams of Mars as he bestrides Earth, square-jawed and indomitable. Lately, Elon Musk also likes to live-tweet his poops.’
Musk had a net worth of $265.4billion as of Monday.
He edged out others for the honor including fellow billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, whose aerospace company Blue Origin lost a lawsuit against Nasa over a $2.9billion lunar lander contract awarded to SpaceX.
Time’s Person of the Year is ‘a marker of influence, and few individuals have had more influence than Musk on life on Earth, and potentially life off Earth too’, Time’s editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal wrote.
‘In 2021, Musk emerged not just as the world’s richest person but also as perhaps the richest example of a massive shift in our society,’ Felsenthal wrote.
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