Elon Musk chosen as TIME Person Of The Year
Highlights:
- The prestigious TIME magazine has marked Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, the "2021 Person of the Year.
- In 2021, US-based electric-vehicle startup Tesla became a $1 trillion company as Musk became the world's richest person with an estimated net worth of around US $255 billion.
- Musk is also the founder and CEO of rocket company SpaceX and leads brain-chip startup Neuralink and infrastructure firm The Boring Company.
- Musk established SpaceX in 2002 and also had his hand in the creation of the alternative energy company SolarCity in addition to Tesla, the most valuable car company in the world.
- The magazine highlights its annual acknowledgment for recognizing the person who had the most influence on the year's events, for good or for ill.
- Recently, he passed Amazon founder Jeff Bezos as the world's wealthiest person .
- Calling him a “clown, genius, edgelord, visionary, industrialist, showman,"
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