Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos show us the future

It was a momentous week for South Africa-born Elon Musk as Tesla overtook Toyota as the world’s most valuable automaker.

At the same time Visual Capitalist published a graphic which showed how, over the past 10 years, Jeff Bezos’s Amazon went from being one-third the size of Walmart to a valuation bigger than the top nine US retailers.

MarketWatch author Cullen Roche recently wrote: “The stock market is forward-looking. So while we see everything for what it is, the stock market is looking for what it might become.”

Enter the world of electric cars and remote shopping.

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