The Tesla CEO and owner of Twitter revealed on February 5 that he has not been able to sleep in recent months due to the challenges he faces.
Sounds like a deja vu movie.
In 2018, Elon Musk revealed that he was sleeping at Tesla’s California factory, where the automaker was having the world’s hardest time mass-producing the Model 3 sedan, its base vehicle.
Musk later appeared erratic in interviews. He had smoked a joint live on a podcast show with controversial celebrity Joe Rogan.
“This last year has been the most difficult and painful year of my career,” he told the New York Times at that time. “It was unbearable.”
‘This is not OK’
The newspaper noted that he choked several times during the interview. He said that the exhaustion was affecting her physical health.
“It hasn’t been great, actually. I’ve had friends who are really worried,” the billionaire said, revealing that he was working up to 120 hours at the time.
“There were times when I didn’t leave the factory for three or four days, days when I didn’t go out,” he said. “This really came at the expense of seeing my children. And see friends.
In another interview from the same year, the Techno King, as he is known at Tesla (TSLA) – Get a free report, stated that “nobody should spend so many hours at work”. “This is not good. It was very painful. My brain and heart hurt,” she added.
Little more than four years later, it seems that the same scenario is repeating itself. The tech mogul has just revealed that the past few months have been “extremely difficult.”
“The last 3 months have been extremely difficult, as I had to save Twitter from bankruptcy, while performing essential duties for Tesla and SpaceX,” the billionaire wrote on February 5, as a commentary on a Wall Street Journal article that He recounts his challenges. “I wouldn’t wish that pain on anyone.”
“Twitter still has challenges, but now it tends to break even if we continue like this.”
Musk then did what he rarely does: ask for everyone’s support.
“Public support is greatly appreciated!”
‘I work all day’
That’s when a Twitter user asked if the current period was as bad as 2008.
“Worse than 2008 or production hell?” the user asked.
“Similar,” replied the billionaire.
“Please be safe and take care of yourself, the world needs you Elon,” another Twitter user commented.
“I’m worried about myself too,” the billionaire replied.
Since late October and the completion of his Twitter acquisition, the billionaire has been involved in five major companies. Three of them, Tesla, SpaceX and Twitter, play very symbolic roles in their respective fields of activity. The other two companies are Neuralink and The Boring Company.
Therefore, he found himself with several challenges to overcome. The first is to make Twitter profitable as soon as possible because it has borrowed to the tune of $13 billion to finance the deal that cost it $44 billion.
In addition to running these companies, Musk also had to face two civil trials in which he testified. In one of the trials, Tesla investors accused him of fraud over 2018 tweets in which he claimed to have obtained funds to take Tesla private. He was acquitted on February 3 by a jury in this case. The other lawsuit concerns the generous compensation package awarded to him by Tesla. The verdict in this case is still awaited.
Juggling processes while running all of their companies’ projects at the same time would be nearly impossible for many entrepreneurs, but not for Musk.
To understand the physical and moral exhaustion in which the billionaire finds himself, it is necessary to refer to his agenda that he revealed a few days ago. And this shows that Musk has been working non-stop for several months.
“I work all day, then I go home and play the work simulator,” he revealed on January 27.
Two days before, one of her fans had summarized one of her last days.
“Morning: Attended court. Evening: Tesla Nevada factory event. Evening: Worked with Tesla’s AI team late into the night. #Respect @elonmusk,” the Twitter user tweeted on Jan. 25 .
“And then I was at Twitter HQ after midnight. A very long day,” the billionaire replied.
Twitter users are thus used to seeing the businessman post messages late at night or at dawn.
“I was checking out the production beta version of Cybertruck. It’s awesome,” Musk tweeted on February 1 at 12:36 a.m.
