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How Elon Musk landed Time’s ‘Person of the Year’

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December 14, 2021

Tesla Chief Executive Officer, Elon Musk has been named Time magazine’s “Person of the Year” for 2021

It’s been a big year for Musk, whose electric car company became the most valuable carmaker in the world and his rocket company soared to the edge of space with an all-civilian crew.

The 50-year-old is also the founder and CEO of Space-X, and leads brain-chip startup Neuralink and infrastructure firm The Boring Company.

Tesla’s market value soared to more than $1 trillion U-S this year, making it more valuable than Ford Motor and General Motors combined.

‘Time’ has described Musk as “the man who aspires to save our planet and get us a new one to inhabit”.

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