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Elon Musk Wins Axel Springer Award for His Innovative Work

SpaceX owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk was presented on Tuesday with the Axel Springer media award in Berlin.

Axel Springer, the largest German digital publishing house in Europe, said the award is given annually to honour outstanding personalities who are innovative in an extraordinary way, who create and change markets and who shape culture while at the same time shouldering their social responsibility.

The world’s second richest man said he is accepting the award on behalf of his staff at SpaceX, Tesla and his other companies “for all the great things that that they have done.”

Previous winners of the award are Mark Zukerberg CEO and Cofounder of Facebook; Jeff Bezos CEO and founder of Amazon; Sir Timothy Berners-Lee inventor of the World Wide Web and the language on which it is based – HTML and Shoshana Zuboff who is an economist and a critic of big tech and data collection.

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