Why Elon Musk Doesn't Have An Office 

Imagine being so popular that people crowdfund a couch for you when you're the richest man in the world

As a retired founder and CEO of a small global high tech company I totally agree with the concept of long hours and being on the front lines with your workers. After 22 years of effort, I gave half the company to the employees, sold it with their approval and retired at 58 years of age to start other business adventures, At 80 I still manage 3 corporations. Make your goals to be above average, it works.

Happy to be living in a time with a man like Elon leading the tech charge for humanity!

Little does the world know how much we all owe to this man. He is single handedly managing to send ice vehicles to the annals of history. He made space transport more affordable and efficient. He has proved that marketing vultures are not required for true progress and he has inspired many into dreaming the impossible and dare do mighty things. May he live long and prosper🖖

Many hundreds of years from every one here on this planet will still know this amaizing person once in a while humanity gets a brilliant treat

Because he has some of the most amazing individuals working with him. The fact that he can draw people like that is the mark of the man.

Elon once he gets the new couch: It's alright Gary, I'll sleep on the cheap couch, you guys can use the expensive one. It was a gift, after all.

Elon Musk is changing the world. If I had to name my hero, it would be him.

No doubt. I'm no Elon Musk but I did own and run a successful construction company. I had no office to speak of and I worked the entire day with carpenter's bags and a pencil behind my ear. I managed customers and employees as needed going directly back to where I'd left off. Probably my most frequent comment when consulting with my people would be, "Ya gotta keep your head in the game to work here." If I had to guess one thing that's got to be accurate about Elon it would be this; He's definatly good at deligating responsibility with the appropriate authority to his highly compitant team.... teams.... necessary for task accomplishment. I'm correct about that one. So i'll keep going. He's not surrounded himself with yes people. I'll bet ya anything there's one sure way to piss him off, let him catch you pandering. lol..... that'd piss me off. "I sign your check. That means you're required as part of your job discription to speak your mind without politics. Period." I paid my folks very well also. No doubt I had good people. Nothing says, "I appreciate your work here." like a fat paycheck! No doubt Elon does that too. Look. Clearly Elon is a whirlwind in the business world, but he's not tapped into some secrete formula that's a mystery to all. Work smart. Work hard. Keep your head in the game. Never quit. Good going Elon. I've only reciently started following your, "Not so boring story." It's nice to see your mannor and how you handle your success. Always speak the truth. Always take the high road. Always remember only one man has walked the earth in a perfect mannor. Never loose that childlike wonder. ....that ability to notice important moments, sights or points..... and say, "Wow. Look at that!" Wish you the best Elon! God Bless

No office? That’s ridiculous!! Where would I hang my MBA diploma?! 🤔😜

elon musk life: 90%: working 9%:eating while working 1%:tweeting memes

I think having no office is a matter of preference If you feel like you'd be more productive with an office, have one; otherwise, ditch the office

That’s how Caesar fought his war in Gaul.

Elon Musk is one of kind.

avoiding calls, and no office..... 80-100 hour a week of work and I'll be just like musk!

I have until recently worked for small businesses where the owner will work shoulder to shoulder with you. These people are willing to share their experience with you and in doing so make you a more valuable asset especially when they encourage you to expand your creativity. It is to bad that so few businesses do it anymore.

this man should be an inspiration for the whole world

I'M SO HAPPY TO BE ALIVE IN THIS TIME TO SEE WHAT ELON IS DOING! Really makes me wanna STEP TF UP!

I am an entrepreneur and a ceo 👨‍💼, I also don’t have a formal office 😊 happy to know about Musk !

Been operating my own (rather small) business for 33 years. When advertising for staff I give them a piece of paper with some questions on it and tell them to return it to me the following day. Here are the questions: 1. Please describe exactly what this company does. How does it make its money? 2. What is the company structure, and who owns it? 3. What contribution(s) will you make to the company to help it stay in business? 4. What do you expect to get from working here? 5. What (if anything) would you be prepared to forefeit or give up, in order to work here? Around 90% of job applicants don't come back the next day.

Being motivated and capable of doing the work everyone else avoids...is the best job security. I've never failed to get hired after telling the interviewer I'm willing and able to do the work no one else wants to do. If you pull it off, you will be the highest paid employee, or the new boss in no time.

I was promoted from the factory floor into a supervisor position and was horrified by how little most salaried employees cared about our products. Most were focused on office politics, their career, or just cozying up to the plant manager. Spending time on the phone, in meetings, or on long lunches were the norm. Spending time on the floor was seen as a waste.

Impressive work ethic!

He reminds me more and more every day of Tony Stark. CEO of a tech giant, always working, that is never in his office, because he is on the production line.

Musk’s views on wasted meetings, death by Powerpoint and the need to focus on design, engineering and production - on point

When you are the CEO the whole building is your office, it does not matter where you work nobody can question what you do.

Because his mind is too vast so the world is his office...

Elon is single handedly advancing our technology by decades

He's a unique individual who once they have power they don't do everything in their power to get more. He just works and those accomplishments take him to where he is now.

I avoid phone calls at all costs too. That’s only blabla or someone trying to trick you. It’s only good if both/ all parties have a clear goal/ topic to speak about and have a solid relationship.

The most impressive part about Elon is that he's somehow an expert and knows everything about each product he's engineering. When he talks about his different rockets at space X, he can tell you about literally every part and what it does and why. Same with the engineering being tesla, boring company, neuralink. Solar city and the list goes on. Insane

I love this man. I am 79 and i had the same work ethic used to work 8 hrs in office and then 8 hours at home every day.

That was an outstanding video on productivity, full of ''cutting edge'' Elon Musk style's common sense and wisdom! Thanks a lot! p.s. But you made me work hard on my vocabulary... English is not my native language. So I had to search the meaning of the zillion idioms in your video commentary... 🤓 But it was worth it! ✌

Love everything about him a fantastic mentor for the engineers and tech brains of the future

Dogefather🥂🍾

I have an office.. I officially need one... but i'm never there just to pick up the post :P

nice video, too many of my workmates are 'buying into' the media hype of 'Musk, a person enriching himself off the backs of ordinary people', and I'm afraid that view is becoming more prevalent than ever....never mind that the whole world is pivoting on this one single person, 'Elon Musk'.

I takes time to get ahead possibly a thing no one understands yet until it becomes a demand.

My HERO! Focus on the job at hand!

the best line ever " being an entrepreneur, is like chowing on a piece of glass and staring into the abyss. " yup at times is can be.

Love Elon Musk from Indonesia❤️❤️❤️🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩

Elon gets it. The ENTIRE reason for a "CEO" is to provide the vision and leadership for the entire company. CEO's that don't leave the bean counting to the bean counters and get overly involved in cost cutting instead of innovation end up being either out of business or sold to someone like Elon who DOES understand how to lead!

Modern day car manufacturing and production wizard. Kind of like Henry Ford.

"assembled worthies" Haha! He was talking to a room full of peasants!

Please bring back that L'effet Mer intro

Elon musk is great for human man kind

Musk is like Henry Ford, Einstein, Darwin, and Da Vinci in one

Thank you for the interesting video

Damn yo. We're in business!

One of a kind... there is NOTHING to compare

All the work stations are mini Offices for the respective workplace. Only matters needed at the particular station should be contained therein for maximum storage utilization and optimum movement and decision making

I would sleep on the floor of my workplace if I had somewhere to work, my mother used to say I can sleep on a piece of 2 by 4

Superb Video.

"Production Hell" was not a phrase invented by Elon. It's commonly used in the film industry and elsewhere.

His head is all the office he needs

I have shared an office with the CEOs and Presidents of major billion-dollar companies before. Elon is right! Of all the executives I have seen succeeding in America, it is the ones who get to the front lines which have the greatest number of successes.

Phone calls and meetings are an epic waste of time. I'm a mechanical engineer and in meetings there's always a handful of people who just repeat the same thing again and again and again needlessly, dragging out what should have been a 5-minute meeting into a repetitive draining 30 to 60-minute one which leaves less time in the day to actually get things done.

Sounds like our kickass super hero need a vacation of 3 days

Love people that enjoy making videos about others

He is a phenomenon

When the musk quote that comes up that say “I have personally been here on Zone 2 module LINE at 2:00 am” At 1:38 you said nine when the text clearly said line lol gotta give ya balls a tug every once in awhile

What an amazing man. 👍👍👍‼️‼️‼️

I definitely believe in non traditional methods to achieve your goals... That's innovation itself. Musk is also obsessed with work. But he gets the results in. I'm from South Africa btw. Elon was brought up here.

100% the only real way to run a company. Or live your life. Hats off to Elon 👍👌🙏

Before Elon Musk, former General Electric engineers Bill & Dave had a similar hands-on approach, which they called Management By Wandering About, as they took Hewlett-Packard from a garage in Palo Alto to become one of the world's leading tech companies.

2:40 to 2:50 These days people with tech backgrounds are targeting MBA courses so they climb up the career ladder. This is contributing to the loss of tech experts.

Nice video.

He definitely has an office in SpaceX, it’s been on many videos...

Working so hard and all his hair still love to stay.

I have one piece of advice for Mr. Musk: you know those old, grey haired guys that assemble models that look exactly like the one on the box or make Lionel train pieces from scratch, you might seek them out every now and again. The term here is fitment, once you get that down you won't need 12 or 15 hours to do a 5 hour project.

1:45 Aggressive security personnel of elon musk

Maybe he had an uncle in the furniture business and they wanted the proto type the Elongo sofa 🤣🤣🤣 it would be a must have in almost every social climbers lounge

Reasons why this man has all my respect. Elon is the future

Everyone: He's my mentor Me:. Why a bus-in-essman is getting so popular, even more than Tony Stark 🤔

I'd like to see Elon spend one of his 100 hour weeks improving the service centers and customer service.

Yes! More business leaders at every level need to rethink their principles and how they actually effect their company's productivity.

This guy is awesome!

Sounds like a clever guy. I might get my people to set up a meeting with me at some point. I think I may be able to give him some advice.

I hope he will have good health to continue working on his innovation and fulfill his great dream.

You can't imitate nor copy their style. Like Steve Jobs used to have and Apple lost with his death. You just can't. The drive is behind the person, being that one in a million. And that's precisely what made and make them special: own trademark. These are the management virtuosos, just like some people are at arts. You just can't clone them.

You don't have to work more than 20 hours a week if you are a genius. 80/20. But Elon is always in lack of time and money, so he has to go 100/100.

He doesn’t have an ‘office’ because, he has a building. Simple as that.

I took a management course at UI a bit ago. If they information I need to know is people's personality profiles, meyers brig's scores, what color of a personality they have. I don't want that job. Nothing like how to treat people with respect and how to get them to work with you and not for you I could go on but. The information taught today in every college. Is based on data and surveys that by the time they get to print it's outdated. You know who doesn't have time to wright a book? Someone that is constantly learning!!!!

EM is the epitomy of dynamism and intellect: he is the role model of what a CEO should be and he is everything the current corporate MBA type CEOs aren't: this is why Tesla is what it is today with so so much more to come.

I also don't have an office.

I really admire his work ethic

A new age Patton!

4:55 I hi:5ed ya😂

I’ve seen Boardroom conference tables that slept as many as 18 executives.

At Tesla Elon set up his desk at the end of the Model X production line so he can personally inspect the cars as they come off the line...and at SpaceX his desk has a sword and a few awards. He doesnt need an office because he owns the building as the majority SpaceX share holder. His work area is notoriously clean and on point. Elon leads from the front and sets the standard for work ethic and innovation.

On that scale of his Business I agree with everything. A little Business should do more Marketing and Sales. The Produkt dont need to be the best in the world to make 100k a year

Mrs Catherine is legit and her method works like magic I keep on earning every single week with her new strategy

I find it amazing that people can work that many hours per week in any given field and their quality of work and mental functioning doesn't ostensibly suffer.

Amen to where CEO should come from! Bloody MBAs make my life ouch sometimes as an engineer

Power napping would help lift the stress

Elon Musk is my favorite CEO! Keep going Musk. Change the world for the better.

I literally just watched an interview where he said 90% of the quotes from this video.

But, he does have an office. Maybe he doesn’t use it much, but he definitely has one.

Respect Mr Musk!

When Elon was in Adelaide with the battery project he spoke to a gathering about mars...the newspaper's thought he was a bit of a con man but he has proved them otherwise since then... and is in fact inspirational to all, even the newspaper's mostly agree with this now.