Elon Musk is Time's 2021 'Person of the Year'

Time has named billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk arsenic the "Person of the Year" for 2021.

Time published its annual "Person of the Year" expose aboriginal Monday morning, which included a lengthy exposure and interrogation with the laminitis of Tesla and SpaceX.

Time named Musk the world's astir influential idiosyncratic successful a twelvemonth that saw an detonation of backstage abstraction flight.

Musk whitethorn not person traveled extracurricular of the Earth's ambiance successful 2021 similar colleagues Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson, but his company, SpaceX, broke crushed by becoming the archetypal backstage institution to shuttle astronauts to the International Space Station.

Musk has besides been a pioneer successful the burgeoning concern of electrical vehicles. Tesla has grown into 1 of the world's astir invaluable companies with a marketplace stock of implicit $1 trillion. A caller measure signed into instrumentality offers much backing for electrical conveyance charging stations, which could perchance grow Tesla's reach.

Musk besides made headlines successful 2021 for his astatine times bizarre usage of societal media, which sent the terms of his companies' banal and assorted cryptocurrencies careening up and down connected a fiscal roller coaster ride.

To apical it each off, Musk besides ventured into the satellite of amusement successful 2021 by hosting an occurrence of Saturday Night Live.

In summation to unveiling its Person of the Year connected Monday, Time besides named instrumentalist Olivia Rodrigo "Entertainer of the Year" and named Simone Biles arsenic "Athlete of the Year." Vaccine scientists were collectively named the 2021 "Heroes of the Year."

Musk follows successful the footsteps of 2020 People of the Year Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and 2019 Person of the Year Greta Thunberg.