Hint: He has gone to space, and he likes electric cars. If you guessed Elon Musk 🙋, correct! Time magazine named the Ttechnoking 2021’s “person of the year”.
Congrats… but why?
Well, Elon Musk made a lot of big changes this year, not only affecting life on Earth but even affecting life “outside” 🌌 of Earth too.
- Tesla’s market value soared this year, allowing it to join the USD 1 tln club – Musk also became the world’s richest man by a very large margin.
- Making space history 🚀 SpaceX also made history this year, sending 4 civilians into orbit for the first all-tourist spaceflight (We previously covered this story).
Did Musk celebrate? Well, he didn’t tweet anything, but Musk did sell another ~USD 900 mln of Tesla stock, carrying on his plan of selling a 10% chunk of his holdings after a Twitter poll
+ Who else was nominated? 🧐 Scientists behind the Covid vaccine were the “heroes of the year” for 2021, and the singer Olivia Rodrigo was “Entertainer of the year”.
🐿️: For the award “Squirry of the year”… I think I would have a good chance.