Time magazine on Monday chose the founder of Tesla and SpaceX, Elon Musk, “the richest man in the world”, as the most influential person of 2021.
The publication highlights Musk, beyond his fortune -which he estimates at more than 250,000 million dollars-, his aeronautical company with which he “puts satellites into orbit” and his electric vehicles, in addition to his ability to make the shares of the New York Stock Exchange rise or fall for a simple comment from you, usually through Twitter.
“With a flick of his finger, the stock market skyrockets or swoons. An army of devotees is hanging on his every word,” the magazine wrote.
Time describes him as an unparalleled person, “the man who aspires to save our planet and get us another new uninhabited one”, but also as a clown and a genius, as a businessman and a showman, as a provocateur.
The magazine emphasizes that 2021 has been Musk’s year, as in April his company SpaceX won an exclusive contract with the US space agency NASA to return US astronauts to the Moon for the first time since 1972. .
In May, he hosted the famous American television show “Saturday Night Live,” and in October, the car rental company Hertz announced that it planned to purchase 100 Tesla vehicles to add to its fleet.
His last great and controversial intervention on social networks dates back to this November when he decided to sell 10% of his shares in the Tesla company, after conducting a survey among his followers on Twitter, which sparked reactions of all kinds and caused that your company’s shares will fall 6%.
Among other seismic movements caused by his tweets this year, the revaluation of the cryptocurrency dogecoin stands out, which soared after Musk wrote a couple of messages about this coin that was born in 2013 as a joke.