By 2021 it has promised it will implant the first chip in a human brain to make it communicate with a computer and that it will realize in Gulf of Mexico the first spaceport from which they will depart space missions directed to Mars, aiming to expand from the Moon to the exploration of the Red Planet. Obviously by financing itself in cryptocurrency.
In the year of its fifty years – officially the June 28, at least this date is certain – Elon Musk’s agenda already seems full enough. But it is not excluded that on his birthday he does some surprise announcement that leaves the world speechless. On the other hand, the man of excesses, who launched a Tesla into space, challenged the SEC saying he was ready to buy back Tesla shares at $ 420 per share, broke a windshield at the time of the launch of the new car, invested 1, 5 billion in cryptocurrency reserves, claimed it would accept bitcoin for the purchase of his machines and then, a month later, backtracking due to the environmental impact of cryptocurrencies, the Californian authorities called “fascist” for the Covid lockdown, announced that he will not get vaccinated, sold flamethrowers to his fans – just to name a few – you can expect everything. Even that you call the daughter like a droid from Star Wars: X Æ A-XII.
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Critics brand him as a charlatan and a smoke salesman – he even smoked a joint on live television -, a master of marketing son of the internet age who knows how to play with social media and the network to amplify his messages. I am a clear example of this the tweets with which he dictates the rhythms of the cryptocurrency fluctuations, causing violent rises or precipitous falls at will by leveraging the 57 million followers: in addition to bitcoin, emblematic is dogecoin, cryptocurrency born as a joke from a meme and ridden by Musk who made its prices soar. But also the support guaranteed to the people of Reddit in their equity raids, when they lashed out against the practice of large institutional players to play down on equities.
From Paypal to chips in the brain
But it is also true that if it has become the second richest man in the world it’s not really just for simple marketing. In fact, the eccentric billionaire of South African origin is part of that line of technological “disruptors” that goes from Steve Jobs and Bill Gates to Jeff Bezos. For his fans he is not a simple entrepreneur, but a visionary genius capable of reshaping and revolutionizing every sector he enters on the basis of ambitions that have no comparison.
It has been like this from the beginning when with his X.com he became one of the creators of Paypal, the company that pioneered the payments industry and then sold it to eBay for $ 1.5 billion.