“The richest man in the world doesn’t own a house.” Thus opens the article with which Time, one of the most prestigious American magazines in the world, celebrates Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and Space X, “Person of the Year”, that is to say “person of the year”, one of the most coveted awards especially from entrepreneurs and innovators.
A singular attack – as they say in journalistic jargon – which fully reflects the particularity of a character that Time, a few lines later, defines as follows:
“This man is a clown, a genius, a visionary, a provocateur, an industrialist, a showman. A crazy hybrid between Thoma Edison, Phineas Taylor Barnum [imprenditore e circense, ndr], Andrew Carnegie and Dr. Manhattan of Watchmen [popolare serie a fumetti, ndr], the dark blue-skinned god-man who invents electric cars and moves to Mars. “
The entrepreneur was a guest, last September, of the Italian Tech Week which took place in Turin, where he discussed with John Elkann on issues concerning innovation and the future.
Elon Musk at Italian Tech Week 2021: the dialogue on the future with John Elkann and Maurizio Molinari
Musk on that occasion spoke, in connection from Texas, to an audience of Italian investors and startuppers who listened to ideas, successes but also difficulties of the visionary who dreams of bringing man to Mars by 2026.
Elon Musk’s sentence on the optimism that has conquered Italian entrepreneurs
Italian Tech dedicated the web series this year to Elon Musk “Essere Elon Musk” who tells about his life and its dark sides, among which his maniacal use of Twitter must certainly be counted: on his official profile the irreverent messages – but also, in the past, worrying statements about Covid-19 – are the order of the day.
Being Elon Musk, the complete series: life, secrets and dark sides of a visionary
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