Every December, TIME magazine announces its Person of Year. This year, that award goes to groundbreaking entrepreneur Elon Musk. TIME's editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal explained why. He wrote: "Person of the Year is marker of influence. Few individuals have had more influence than Musk on life on Earth, and potentially, life off Earth too." He added: "In 2021, Musk emerged not just as world's richest person, but also as perhaps richest example of massive shift in our society." Mr Musk is worth more than $255 billion. He is richest person in history. He is also helping to save our world and our future. He is leading efforts to explore space and get to Mars.
The year 2021 was amazing one for Elon Musk. He went into space in his own rocket. It was made by his company SpaceX. This is pioneer in space tourism. It might enable us to travel to Mars. Mr Musk is also well known for his car company Tesla. This controls two-thirds of multi-billion-dollar electric car market. It is valued at around $1 trillion. Musk is also engineer, inventor and trailblazer in many other cutting-edge industries. He first made his name by co-founding e-payments company PayPal. Today, he is leading player in robotics, solar technology, crypto-currency, artificial intelligence and super-speed public transport. TIME called him genius and visionary
