The American billionaire and inventor, the richest man in the world, Elon Musk was recognized as the "Man of the Year-2021" according to the authoritative magazine "Time". The publication noted the success of the 50-year-old billionaire's companies SpaceX and Tesla, as well as the influence of the entrepreneur's Twitter messages on world stock markets.
"This person has an extraordinary influence on life on planet Earth and, in the future, possibly on life beyond it," Time's editor-in-chief said during the ceremony.
Note that Musk is the first person in history whose fortune has exceeded $300 billion. It is known that the Tesla automobile company controls two-thirds of the multibillion-dollar electric car market and is valued at $1 trillion. This made Musk, with a fortune of more than 250 billion dollars, the richest businessman in history.
At the same time, Time named vaccine creators as heroes of the year.
In 2020, the winners of the "Person of the Year" nomination were the current president and vice president of the United States, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. A year earlier, the magazine awarded this title to the eco-activist Greta Thunberg.
