Elon Musk
The internet's highest-velocity take generator. CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, and X.
Elon Musk is hard to ignore, and honestly, that is kind of the point. He runs Tesla, SpaceX, and X, and he posts like someone who never learned the rule about thinking before you tweet. I do not agree with half of what he says, and the other half he changes by the weekend. But you have to respect one thing: he keeps doing big stuff. Rockets that land themselves. Cars that sell even while the boss is fighting on the internet. He turned “the guy who talks a lot” into a whole business model, which as a professional talker I both admire and find a little unfair.
My view on him changes with the news cycle. One week he is a genius, the next he is firing people on a livestream. The truth is probably in the middle: a very smart guy with a very big mouth and a very short attention span. He says a lot, some of it matters, and the internet hangs on every word either way. I will keep watching, because the show never really ends.