--- title: "Bronze Statue of Elon Musk Looks Nothing Like Elon Musk" description: "Stock market company Public.com decided to give Tesla CEO Elon Musk a gift for his 50th birthday on Monday: a terrifying, life-sized bronze statue." date: "2021-06-29" modified: "2021-06-29" authors: - name: "Victor Tangermann" job_title: "Senior Editor" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/victor" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/bronze-statue-elon-musk" categories: - "Elon Musk" - "Future Society" - "The Industrialists" tags: - "elon musk" - "stock market" - "tesla" - "the digest" --- # Bronze Statue of Elon Musk Looks Nothing Like Elon Musk ![Stock market company Public.com decided to give Tesla CEO Elon Musk a gift for his 50th birthday on Monday: a terrifying, life-sized bronze statue.]() *\Image: SpaceX\* ## Bronze Elon Investment site Public.com decided to give Tesla CEO Elon Musk a gift for his 50th birthday: a life-sized bronze statue in Lower Manhattan. The only problem? It doesn't look anything like him. It appears to be based on the [widely-circulated video]() in which he watched the first Falcon Heavy launch, but aside from the pose it doesn't capture much of Musk's likeness, leading to [mockery online](). https://twitter.com/public/status/1409531203817029634 It's a reminder of the investment community's unwavering enthusiasm for the third richest person in the world — a man who has the power to determine the fate of entire companies with his often [very silly]() tweets. ## Love and Hate The statue, naturally, is part of a marketing campaign. "Elon Musk is ubiquitous in pop culture and is CEO of one of the most popular companies on Public," the company's [website reads](). "Maybe you love him. Maybe you think he should tweet less. Either way, to commemorate his 50th birthday, we gave away one hundred 14-inch bronze statues of the man." In addition to the miniatures, Public also dropped a life-sized version of the hideous statue in New York "because Elon's ambition (and maybe ego) is definitely not miniature," according to [a tweet]() by the company. And if you just can't enough of Musk's monstrous visage cast in bronze, you can enter an auction to buy the 150-pound, six foot tall interpretation. "Just 150 pounds of metal and not investment advice," the company [explained]() in a follow-up tweet. **More on Musk:** *[Elon Musk Criticizes NASA, Says Spaceships Should Fly Between Space Stations]()* ## Author I've been at Futurism since 2017, where my role has evolved to encompass design, writing, and increasingly editing. I've always been fascinated by space exploration and advanced transportation, which I've leaned into by interviewing luminaries in those fields while closely following the dimensions of policy and regulation that allow next-generation projects to succeed -- or, sometimes, to fail. I'm also keenly interested in the effects of generative AI on society, policies, and democratic institutions, as well as clean energy, physics and biology, and the vagaries of tech leadership. My work for Futurism has been cited by publications including Ars Technica, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Jalopnik, Fox News, and the New York Post. I spent my childhood living in locations including Manila, the Philippines, and Geneva, Switzerland, attended McGill University, and now live in Toronto, Canada. Before Futurism I worked at AskMen and a small photography studio. In my free time, I'm an avid gardener, foodie, and craft beer lover, as well as a maker of artisanal hot pepper sauces. I have a magnificent dog named Freida. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()