OREANDA-NEWS. During an online broadcast on the YouTube channel of Time magazine, the American billionaire, the head of SpaceX and Tesla, Elon Musk, was chosen the «Person of the Year». This was announced by the editor-in-chief of the media, Edward Felsenthal.

«This person has an extraordinary influence on life on planet Earth and in the future, perhaps, on life beyond it. From the existential crisis of climate change, from the problems of inequality to the new boundaries of the possible — no one embodies the themes of this year better than the man of 2021 — Elon Musk», the editor-in-chief of the magazine announced.

Earlier, the head of Tesla was named the most popular foreigner in Russia, this assessment was made by the American newspaper The Washington Post. The authors of the article note that the main secret of success is that Russians are nostalgic for successes in the space sphere. Another reason for the popularity of publicists is the success story of an entrepreneur who immigrated to the United States from South Africa.