Elon Musk being selected as TIME magazine's Man of the Year

TIME magazine announced it this week and wrote a surprisingly revealing story about the young industrialists' life, including a father that psychologically tortured him and his being set upon by bullies in grade school.
But the way TIME tells it, his IQ was sufficient that he survived only by using his brains to propel him forward, making his first software sale at age 12.
When he came to the US and earned two degrees, he and his brother kept inventing, and eventually sold the company now called PayPal.
Even having almost 600 million while still in his '30s didn't want to make him sit back and enjoy it like his arch rival Jeff Bezos who has one the world's largest yachts .Somewhere Musk got the notion to go to the moon. He tried to buy ballistic missiles from the Russians to re-purpose them as space ships but the Russkies couldn't take him seriously and sent him packing. On the trip back from Russia TIME writes that he told his two partners, who were drinking in the seat behind him, to forget the Russians, because he had just figured out how to build a superior spaceship.
The TIME story dwells much on his spaceship company Space-X but since this is a car site, I'll focus on that. After meeting a man with a small company that wanted to build an electric sports car, he bought in and about the time they had a working prototype, bought out his partners. The first Tesla was botn.
The TIME piece doesn't mention the striking styling of the Tesla family cars that followed--purposely minimalist so you wouldn't have to up-date them every year with more chrome or taller tailffins like Detroit. He has saved millions on not needing re-stylings.
The article paints him as genius when he solved the battery problem, but shows him as defensive about the self driving aspect, mentioning the accidents Teslas have had with emergency vehicles. Level 5 autonomy hasn't been approved of for the US yet but Musk is the most ready of all his competition when it gets green-lighted.
But the authors do give him credit for getting electric car sales off the ground in a big way, leaving the Big Three automakers in the dust.
They make it sound like Musk is so smart, that running just Space X or just Tesla wouldn't be enough. He needs to run both firms, and always be on the edge. He's got other firms too, an underground tunneling firm, one experimenting in brain science and one making solo generators for the home.
Personality wise, they note his penchant for childish jokes (adding an app to have a Tesla make farting sounds) and his beef with the unions but I think they entirely neglected the fact that, for the first 10 years critics said he didn't make any money on his cars but now suddenly are realizing that he has figured out how to make more profit per car than Detroit.
His social life--three marriages with three women, children everywhere--are a bit muddled , says TIME, but who could live with a husband who is only home a few hours a week, even if he is the richest man in the world?
I would recommend reading the TIME story (it's posted on the net). It paints a picture of an unstoppable genius, one whose accomplishments far out-do any previously celebrated automotive pioneer. It's Thomas Edison on steroids....