Tesla CEO and SpaceX founder Elon Musk on December 13 was named Time magazine’s “Person of the Year” 2021.
- Musk was given the recognition “for creating solutions to an existential crisis, for embodying the possibilities and the perils of the age of tech titans, for driving society’s most daring and disruptive transformations”.
- Musk is also the founder at brain-chip startup Neuralink and infrastructure firm The Boring Company.
- According to the Time magazine, “Person of the Year” signified somebody “who affected the news or our lives the most, for better, or worse”.
- Among other significant awards, the magazine named vaccine scientists as “Heroes of the Year”, American gymnast Simone Biles as “Athlete of the year” and singer, song-writer and actress Olivia Rodrigo as the “Entertainer of the Year”.
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