Working for Elon Musk: Ex-Employees Reveal His Management Strategy | WSJ 

Safest approach i feel to tackle it is to diversify investments. By spreading investments across different asset classes, like bonds, real estate, and international stocks, they can reduce the impact of a market meltdown. its important to seek the guidance of an expert

You're correct; I always advise new investors to seek guidance from professionals and to invest under their supervision for successful long-term gains.

I diversified my $400K portfolio across multiple market with the aid of an investment advisor, I have been able to generate over $900k in net profit across high dividend yield stocks, ETF and bonds in few months.

@@RominaBarth-jf6de How can I participate in this? I sincerely aspire to establish a secure financlal future and am eager to participate. Who is the driving force behind your success?

@@JustinWitt07 Rebecca Charlotte Craig is the licensed fiduciary I use. Just research the name. You’d find necessary details to work with a correspondence to set up an appointment..

That's why Elon hands out stock options ... supposedly lots of factory-line employees at Freemont gigafactory who joined during Tesla's early years are now millionaires ... so he says.

Agree with that completely. What I found funny is that he comes in, fires X% of people and then tell the rest: you will now have to put in +100% hours weekly but you will feel special about it. It’s nonsense, no one can go at that pace for long, the burnout itself will leave you depressed.

Jenuz noz slabor slaws

People who work for Elon generally stay for a few years. It’s nice to have SpaceX or Telstra on the resume.

@@MrBee-qd3ri anyone can leave if they want, software developers are in demand now.

Thats like what most genX say.

sure kid.

What did you work on at spacex?

@@message2612 Toilets

@@billyray9925 u say it as a joke. Bu think about a toilet in 0 G.. what u do with the matter later. do u really think it's that simple now?

Bingo,you target the most truth.

This is how it is and how it’s mostly always been.

@@gusfring96 He has plenty of "play time", has enough free time to do lots of interviews/podcasts/etc. Tons of pictures of him vacationing, etc... He has a different mindset compared to many other CEO's and is undeniably successful. But I think this 'hard work' rhetoric is a farce (to a certain degree).

One of the most insightful posts I read this year!

This is exactly why Wall Street and the business/financial/banking sector has such high turnover. The average person in those jobs is staring at a screen for 10-12 hours a days and doing labor and thought intensive work, spreadsheets, graphs, sales, analysis, etc. Sure, its not physically intensive like outdoor manual labor, but its a huge brain drain to have to do all of that while managing your daily life, kids, meeting sales or company goals, etc. Most of these mega CEOs fit the work around their schedule, while the average person doesn't have that luxury.

You go to work I think not to make friends.

We all understand the concept of "saying something", it's called talking. But thanks for reminding us.

He's basically saying that Elon is not interesting in making friends. If you want to introduce yourself to him, don't do so by telling him your name; do so by showing him your skill.

Wear the invisibility cloak or duck out when Tom arrives. But Jerry can entice Tom though!!!!

"they will let him know your name"

The term you are looking for is robots. Elon wants actual robots working for him and definitely not humans.

Yea. F7ck that. Unless I'm going to get rich beyond belief, than I'm not going to work like that

It really depends what constitutes “work”. Some people literally spend all their time in meetings and socializing. It’s tiring too but you’re not necessarily doing anything. For labour staff like assembly workers or programmers, it’s much more important to step away and do something else to maintain sanity.

@@mecanuktutorials6476 You just couldn’t resist adding your little “well, yes, BUT” comment, could you?

Another big question is - who gets the credit for your hard work? Musk doesn't share any credit for hard work done by his employees. Musk is a pretty poor engineer if he can be called that, but he takes credit for everyone else's work making himself look like a "genius". If you sign up to work for Musk, you've just become his willing slave.

It also sucks telling your daughter you can't go to a certain school because you can't afford it.

You can choose career success or you can choose an easier life. No one is forcing you to choose one or the other. If you're happy not working hard, good for you. It doesn't mean Elon Musk is evil or is exploiting people who share his drive.

@@kembanganplaza5782 There is something called balance

Bunch of Muskrats depending Muksy in the comments

@@dropdownmenu5587 It also sucks to use a straw man fallacy.

Good way to look at it.

Umm…perhaps if you are salaried. Otherwise, that doesn’t even make sense.

What do you do

I envision a corporate model that itself incorporates families.

50 years from now, on your deathbed, surrounded by loving partner, successful kids, and happy grand children...you will look back on this decision to prioritize family and health as the decision that made your great life possible. Work is just work, family is THE REASON to live. Just my 2c as someone who's made the same decision.

you took the right decision

I used to be at the same situation like you. He admired Musk, he looked like Jobs, he treated people like Bezos, he worked 24/7. No private life, just work. I quit this job. The next my job was with the same type of CEO, he worked a lot, but was little difference: he was a legit genius, he wasn't copycat. I enjoyed working for him. This type of people can set high non-trivial goals, they find people like they are and work in such team a true joy.

FInd a new job & stop complaining .

@@rick6582CNCMedicalParts they’re probably saying that because they have sympathy for other workers

@@alexsiemers7898 It just doesn’t occur to some people that you can commit yourself to a job you enjoy that has lasting benefits

Only idiots will stay . The idiots that cry wen ftx bankruptcy

When you are doing that, you aren't punching a clock, you are actually trying to get something accomplished.

I could say depends upon type of lawyer & firm character, although what's the prevalent or distinctive ethic these days?

Only he and the higher ups get the extra pay

ok

@@hoze1235 60 billion dollar paycheck 🤑🤑

It is not regular people working ultra-hardcore it is elite people working extra hardcore. The same happens in consulting. The reward comes from having that organization in your curriculum, which means way better jobs in the future. The difference is that Musk pays well, but consulting does not in the first years, and you still work 80 h weeks. The reward comes 5 years to a decade later when you are either an associate or work in other company and you were considered for a higher position than other people of your age, because you are quality certified

They do.

Apparently he wants sycophants with no self-respect, friends, or family.

They don't work that many hours. It's complete bs. The employees have wasted billions of dollars in time and resources. You can't be lazy.

@@matthewb.7172 You missed: „and never criticize him“.

@@matthewb.7172 That needs no saying. It's a must-do.

I'm not sure how much the ones that worked 80-100 hours made, but I can only guess that these people earned a very good salary. If I made 300k - 500k a year like a lot of high-level engineers or IT-People, then you bet I'd sacrifice a couple of years if it meant that I can then slow things down in the long run or even stop working at a younger age.

facts

facts

People have sacrificed more for money/passion.

@@theobserver3753passion for paycheck

Luckily, employment is optional.

So you work like a dog to make a billionaire richer ?? Any argument about dreams or whatever is not worth this. Nothing is worth losing out on family.

I’m calling you privileged, because you don’t experience those hours unless you’re working 60-70 hour weeks

Note: So many people don’t have lives and have to live like this just to get by.

It’s smart to get you paid per hour you life on earth, in place of just spending and do pointless things over and over again.

You my friend just described episodic TV production hours. There's a reason Elon sleeps at work sometimes... just taking hint from all the DP' in film who sleep on set in a trailer.

Why do you worry about them anyway? I don't get it. They went through great effort to get a job there and they haven't left. Do you really think they need anyone wringing their hands on their behalf? If they want to go all-out with effort, who are you to tell them they shouldn't? Aren't you busy enough steering your own life? I don't know, maybe you're just chattering pointlessly to kill time. If so, I withdraw my comment. Your business.

@@dixonpinfold2582 virtue signaling. he needs his internet points.

Yes, I'm sure Elon is working hard by Tweeting 100 times each day.

@@MagDrag123 so you're saying that by typing these yotube comments you're not working hard? should your boss be seeing this?

Facts!!

Musk's too insufferably selfish to grasp the long term value in something as sensible as that.

I swear people like you speak for the sake of speaking. Every single employee at Musk's companies owns stock in the company they work for. There are Tesla employees that own millions of dollars in Tesla stock.

Twitter is basically a platform for big boys and girls to complain all day and create chaos. Forget about Free speech. Its just full of complains and attacks. There is zero value in having a twitter account. Unfortunatley, RU-vid is slowly becoming a social media platform too. Hopefully it wont be as bad

True... These smartphones are making people dumb.. it's time to again use the dumb phone 📱.

Says the guy watching RU-vid videos

@@JamesWest_III 🤣

I've never used it myself. The problem is, for some people it's not just social; they rely on it for important news and communication.

That’s how the top CPA and Consultings firms work.

Necessary, but not sufficient.

Well... it usually delivers the best results, so in that way... they are "the best"

It's what doctors do. It's what it takes to get through residency. Lawyers too.

then dont work for these companies. they want people that work hard, not lazy employees that require mental health days off.

Good for them. They can find an environment where their mediocrity and lack of willpower is appreciated. And they will be replaced by people at Twitter who have the guts to make greatness a reality.

so is the people who invested with FTX

ikr...? Elon it's actually you who are "the weakest link" GOOD BYE... (best Anne Robinson voice)

@@sshah2545 guts and lack of a personal life

@@phillyphil1513 who's that?

Musk really does treat his employees well.

@@dogefromthefuture I love me some alternative facts 🤗

@@dogefromthefuture He treats them so well that his Tesla mega factory in Cali has more safety violations and labor accidents than every other American car manufacturer combined. He's a modern day Robber Baron; the answer to the age old question: What if Dickens was alive and got inspired by tech bros to write a villain for his latest best seller?.

Because they want to be part of something great. Because they are rewarded in the capital gains of their stock equally with Elon. Because they are invested in producing the best EV on the planet. None of that happens when you're afraid someone who's working as hard as you might make a buck. Long may you revel in your mediocrity.

Very true. Like the interview with the engineers that founded tesla saying they don't know why Musk has to say he founded the company when he is the 7th ceo.

Then you’re not the right candidate for the job, it’s that simple, Tesla and space x have no problem recruiting top talent

would you like a medal?

@@Gamago nope. A better paying job would be nice.

Unfortunately the major news media thinks it's a reliable source for their content.

Elon didn't found Tesla though.

@@FutureCommentary1 True, but when Musk took Telsa over, it was still a young company with a startup culture. A large, public company like Twitter has a way different culture.

It can be turned into anything Musk wants. Elite guys like his style, because he gets rid of the dead weight and barriers. Most elite people love to work manically

@@cristianproust Love their subordinates to work manically*

Your life is up to you. You can be productive for 2 hours a week, 60 hours a week, or 120 hours a week, at a company. Who do you think gets more done? Same for personal life. If you are productive for 120 hours a week in your personal life, when do you have time to work? Or you just depending on random people to give you money?

Yeah its horrible causes breakups depression start not doing your hobbies become a strat zombie and crash. Just because you work more hours doesnt mean anything. Thats why work forces are moving towards a 4 day week and they are getting more production because people are happier they have more time to do the things they want.

Depends, prosecutors have it worse

Agreed, just look at the guy's personal life. No real friends, just business associates. When he burns out and goes broke, there will be no one there to help him, not even his kids.

And Elon doesn’t have a social life or his family anymore. Crazed workaholics like this do well in business but at the expense of the people around them.

Yeah

Addition: So the richest man on the planet can dig himself out of a hole his own hubris dropped him in.

The problem will be if this toxicity begins to spread and the government does nothing to restrict companies, the population will be left without options.

@@Cier433 or we could end the working from home movement and people can actually work/contribute to society

That's literally every game company up to a few years ago.

I understand the fact that tomorrow isn't promised to anyone, but investing today is a hard thing to do for me now because I have no idea how and where to invest in. I would be happy if you could advise me based on how you went about yours, as I am ready to go the passive income path.

This only demonstrates how you think

@@bradshoe100 What you said is actually true. Our opinions are representations of what we think.

Why do u think the media is angry at elon.? Because hes undermining their abikity to control what we see

@@Blackkey034 The media has nothing to do how a person or persons treat their employees.

if you don’t like it why bother? Nobody forcing you Go to Bahama and work for different companies 😂

Absolutely agree with this. This will destroy anyone's quality of life.

Line up here to get chewed up. If you don't want to wait to get spit out, you can leave now.

you are also not the owner, you get salary if you work 40hrs and you get same salary if you grind 80 hours.

but they are fairly compensated, Tesla,Space X and Twitter pay a tons

I've worked at a company like that. Its not an American thing. It's a life thing. 9-5 barely cuts it in this competitive world. If you want to complete projects that matter you have to sacrifice and put in the work. The higher paid and high position 8-5 jobs come so easily after. Cause everyone wants the level of quality your CV says you have. If you don't want that level of success look for the other things in life. Don't look down on people who want it

no one is working 100 hours a week. just leave the job or sue him?

@@SahilSharma-dt7qn, You are the perfect example of a self-absorbed person, if a worker depends on health insurance because of a sick kid or has debts? Then, what would your advice be? Let the kid go without medicine or stop paying the mortgage?

@@pablobonilla5893 what would the worker do if there is no company? twitter is a lose making company. They have to do hard work until it makes profit, right? What would the worker do if he had no company to work for? twitter employee gets enough salary for their hard work

@@SahilSharma-dt7qn They already made a profit, they sold the code and the infrastructure to a billionaire that has buyers' regret and the ones that are losing are the workers that had nothing to do with the decisions made by the previous management, please, if you don't analyze things on your own, don't bother to replay

They probably spend 100 hours a week at work because free breakfast lunch and dinner takes time. Plus the free yoga, workout rooms, nap rooms, meditation rooms, crying rooms... It's a lifestyle not a work ethic.

🤣🤣🤣🤣 right...if that was the case it would have happened already....

@@sanynava9160 it happened to MySpace, its happening to Facebook, what makes twitter immune?

you have good brains! just after TRENDS was launched , i see your comment which is absolutely right and supposedly could happen.

That's how his family treated workers in emerald mines.

No offense, but you have to admit that American workers are generally lazy and incompetent. Watch the documentary "American Factory" produced by the Obamas. American workers are fat, lazy, and entitled. America is an empire in decline and it has a lot to do with a decline in culture and work ethic.

At the end of the day people chose to work there. If you're smart enough to work for tesla. You can work ANYWHERE

@@lanaistheneworange3013 That sounds made-up. Certainly the part about "mines" (plural) is.

@@dixonpinfold2582 you have to understand. Elon is not the ultimate bad guy because he took away their echo chamber.

And look at the family wreckage he's left in his personal wake

That is a life not worth having

@@aaronandanneloganbillions of dollars made in his wake. Oh no

I don't think any of them work 100 hoursa week unless they want to.

@@get2choppa429 He doesn't work those hours, his employees do.

Through its ESOP (employee stock ownership plan) a great many of Tesla's employees have become wealthy, rather than through their salaries. It's been around corporate America (and other countries) for a long time and worked at making many companies and their workers hugely successful. The whole company, when a lot of things including ESOP are done right, becomes super-motivated. But I don't know what percentage of Tesla's staff are eligible for the ESOP.

@@dixonpinfold2582 the company I work for has esop, but it is basically just a fund you can direct your 401K into, nothing special, so just the same as buying company stock on open market in self directed IRA.

@@ghffrsfygdhfjkjiysdz No discount of any kind then? No sweating long nights to get shares cheaper or anything? Nothing? Edit: If so, I never had that either. Ok, so it's options I have in mind. Those work like crazy. Even a receptionist will become a geyser of energy with those.

Well Tesla does and is offering payment in tesal stock wich at BEGGINING MANY EMPLOYESE DIDNT TAKE bcs of althe MEDAI MISINFORMATION AND LIES saying how Tesal stock is worth 0$ or how EVERY eyar Tesla will shut down.... Now SAME people that OPUT OF FEAR took regular pay over Tesla stock are now atatcking,barating other EX and cureent Tesla eployese that took payment in STock option adn are now blaming Elon and Tesla for hat and not MEIDA or THEMSELF for believing ALL medai and interent said...

It's funny how a conman can be completely exposed, however as long as the companies he bought stay afloat, thanks to subsidies and bullish markets, people follow him like sheep. Let's see if "if fake it till you make it", works for him in the end. I dont think a lot of people could explain why Holmes is in prison and he's still the poster child of Silicon Valley.

It doesn't always give you nothing in return. If you're valuable to the company, not just loyal, then every additional hour you can work the more value you add, and you'll often be compensated very well for your time.

@@rewardilicious not always. It just may mean the same will be expected from everyone else if one or more employees are working harder or more, bcs employees just proved it's possible

@@rewardilicious I no company I worked so far I gained anything from working harder, better or longer. Checkmate capitalism.

@@rewardilicious no, compensation is more related to how close you are to your manager. Which may not be actual value or number of hours. At the end of the day, you are just a headcount to the companies, and they will come up with all sorts of excuses to fire you to cut cost when it comes to that.

ikr, all these companies demand unwavering loyalty, but have no problems whatsoever laying off thousands of people for no reason just to cut costs

Actually some people work because they love their work, even if it pays them a sh*tty lifestyle that wont get any better anytime soon. Some others love their work and get paid tons but still decide to live a pretty spartan life in a small flat until they die, because they want to keep working. These people are not worrying about what 'they' is going to say, whoever the heck that is. They just find a more definite purpose, a meaning, a sense of passion, in their work more than say, in taking a beer or lightning a blunt, playing or watching a game, or just traveling around the world.

some people don't work for money. they work for a purpose

ask the frontier, the first western people of america that come to the US why stick to that work? Let me tell you why: Freedom, and purpose greater than mere quiet life! Some people nowadays, even in America, won't get it as the word freedom is just overused without they actually make a great sacrifice, that is maybe the reason why some ask such question that you asked? In a sense you are right you work for a better life, but your interpretation for a better life is too personal just for you that you missed the whole point of "better life", I guess different culture and different generation makes the purpose askew to more personal ?

They will appreciate it when they graduate from Yale instead of Austin Community College. You work so your children will have a better life. It's not about you.

​@@michaelgentile9580 Relationships require time and effort to maintain and strengthen and spending all your time at work can leave little time with and supporting your family members. This will result in a lack of support, connection, and communication within your family, which will harm your relationships and cause anger and conflict in the long run. They might go to a nice school and get the same degree every other school gives out, but they will probably not talk to you or pretend they like you just for that money when u pass. If you think it's worth, go ahead.

Like where?

@@bngr_bngr pretty much any FAANG company. Twitter is not even that high paying to begin with (in that scale) Of course FAANG aren't doing too well with the recession, but they can just go on a world trip (live on their savings) and come back when economy is better

the people that quit/resigned are mad because they dont get to be lazy working from home.

@@mattiaslp9645 yep pretty much. You can enjoy working for Elon 80 hours a week I’ll be home being lazy making more money

@@mattiaslp9645people didnt get to the top of their fields to work 2 jobs and constantly have to validate their worth. i have a relative unknown tech interview this week, it's the first of 5 rounds of challenges and interviews. I can't imagine how hard you would have to work to get in at Twitter.

What companies has Elon been given?

Cry more please.

He will have more companies. In the future he will own the entire cellphone industry and cable and internet industry equivalent of owning Verizon towers and Comcast Xfinity. What do you think he’s building with his reusable rockets? The infustfucture of the futures communications industry. His low earth orbit satellite network will be the tower system of the world. No need for outdated land towers towers in the future. Elons satellites will be faster, everywhere, cover more area, and powered by the sun. He’s already put over 5K of them in space.

Knowing what you're all about and why is so important. 👏👏 Great that it's working for you. So many of us are lost, or used to be.

Makes up for that guy who was bragging about working 4 hours a week at Twitter pre-Elon.

@@stapleman007 You should stop demonizing Twitter employees. They don't deserve it.

@@stapleman007 To keep a highly paid job at big tech company takes lot more than 4 hours work. And lot more than that to keep your knowledge and skill sharp. Seriously, if you work only 4 hours/day and still doing great at a big tech company, you are some special tech talent. LOL

do you mean they'd rather avoid hard work and look for another place where they can coast and get paid well? Then hope Twitter (a place where they built) get destroyed?

@@shigor No, that's not what I mean. I'm sure Twitter employees already work hard. But Musk is asking them to sacrifice their personal lives. If it were me, I would be trying to get out of there.

Yes, I see that. He's been high on his own supply as meme lord. But we'll see. So many assume he will fail but he has started and succeeded with so many more companies that people realise from zip, x, Paypal, to OpenAI, Boring, etc as well as SpaceX, Tesla. And I think people have no idea how willing he is to eat humble pie and then just get on with things.

@@abzorba4194 he did not start most of those companies although he has proven successful at bringing in massive investment to them

You will never succeed with this mentality… always give your all

@@cmc2110 give your all to someone else? You're the one who won't succeed with this mentality

@@matheusazevedo9582 Yes lazy bones! Give your all for WHATEVER job you are working. If you're a janitor, be the best janitor you can be. If you drive a bus, work to do it with excellence. If you are a house painter, pay attention to detail, show up on time and work hard to make the owner grow a successful business. THIS is how YOU gain work experience. Then... if you are lucky and you have worked really hard to teach yourself discipline and a good work ethic, THEN you can think about starting your own business. Maybe it will be a lawn care service and if you find that people love your work, in time you may need to hire a few people. You will then be doing something great. You'll be self-employed AND helping other people to put food on THEIR tables and pay their bills. Wake up Matheus!!!!!! You've got it all backwards kiddo!!!!

Dude, try to become a biz owner yourself, and find out what happens if you don't work hard.

What isn't a trap? Only self- employment?

Also Twitter is not a startup. There is no longer explosive growth for Twitter.

1000s of useless employee's

Also, massive multi-billion government subsidies.

You’re right, but the answer is incomplete. It WAS an established company which he then bought and has the right to reshape as he sees fit. He gave the employees the choice of continuing with the changes or leave. The idea that they get to dictate terms beyond fair labor laws to the new owner is entitled lunacy.

the employees at twitter are spoiled brats used to high wages nd low productivity. You will always operate at losses with that kind of company attitude.

The you just leave

@Thawne this is not a comment about Tesla or SpaceX, it is about Twitter employees, who were already employed under very different work conditions from those of Tesla and SpaceX.

@Thawne your replies are irrelevant. If you have nothing rational and on topic to say we're done.

@@crawknyes they were living a corrupt lifestyle, operating at a net negative while laughing down at normal Americans and citizens around the world - they got exactly what they deserved and then some.

Yeah being in the military for over a dozen years …. I have worked insane hours and deployed away from many family too many times. Oh yeah - no overtime 👍👍👍

"All regulations are written in blood."

@@AverageJoe483 the military is not a business.

@@DeepDeepSpace I’m sick of people complaining about “ terrible working conditions “, when they have no idea what terrible conditions truly are. So my level of empathy is essentially zero.

@@TheRealHungryHobo so no brakes in your car? and no seat belts too ? those things would not be there if not for regulations.

but sometimes it works ，especially，in low-end industry,work harder and longer than your rivals,then you win and they lose.

Thats great, is your company and approach doing better than his though?

@Settler Watch could and actually doing has a difference

It is VERY effective for the company. The employees pay the price with their health later on. There are companies, sometimes industries, that are sucking all the living energy out of their employ and then they simply replace them. This is how our society gets great things. All mega civil engineering project were done by people working 55h+ weeks.

Several trillion dollars of enterprise value and hundreds of thousands of job created says you’re wrong. Take your fantasy theories and live your life in squalor.

I would have given ANYTHING to have him as my mentor... and the work of 16 a day... I've done it before for several yrs. It pays off . Most can't do it... or don't want to do it.

I bet Elon doesn’t tweet. He probably has a team of people that follows him around tweeting on his behalf. Maybe robots are his social media staff.

@@twylah9047 Wow. A reply that has nothing to do with anything in my comment. Yes, I'm sure being so caught up in your own thoughts that you can't give a coherent response is going to convince me to change my mind.

@@twylah9047 So you say you'd give anything and yet you have not taken any actions to try to get him to be your mentor. Know how I know!? Cause you would not have make a fake post about it in this comment.

@@twylah9047 Elon is a rich kid, he just has money to throw at things and a few of them became really successful. he won't teach you anything useful. Bezos is the guy with real knowledge

Because they want to be part of something great. Because they are rewarded in the capital gains of their stock equally with Elon. Because they are invested in producing the best EV on the planet. None of that happens when you're afraid someone who's working as hard as you might make a buck. Long may you revel in your mediocrity.

you can't

For any company they have no loyalty to employees.

Guys they manipulated you He said he worked 80 to 100 hours per week and worked very hard to achieve success That clip was from an an interview where the interviewer has asked him for advice for entrepreneurs Dont trust social media especially this channel Such manipulative bastards depicting a bad image against someone working hard to succeed

@@arifkarim768 when you scan through the comments, you sure see a common pattern of 80-100 hours and basically saying the same thing in a different way. These are all bots or comment farms.

Yea, if I have to work in an environment where you need to keep bringing new ideas for absolutely no reason purely for the sake of showing investors "innovation" then I'd rather leave

​@@93hothead thats what makes only 1% of us make it to the top, 10% of us keep doing their best at work and the rest choose to playing victim asking for free money protesting on the street.

@@suharsya I just want to be the 10% man. I can't keep coughing up new ideas 24/7

It's not just a matter of wanting. The question is if you have a sufficient level to be able to work in their companies. It's a fact that Musk has no shortage of brilliant engineers.

Sounds reasonable.

You'd quit at a pizza delivery outfit too.

They get great experience on how to be efficient and effective from perhaps the greatest entrepreneur to ever have lived. That looks good on your resume.

There is zero chance you would be offered that job. Is like refusing to date supermodels because they are too much work

Yea working at Musk's Twitter really is terrible. I've been at silicon valley for over two decades and EVERY SINGLE company I worked for offered far better work/'life balance, fringe benefits, flex hours, ability to work from home etc than Musk's twitter. I would guess you don't even get a free piazza at Musk's Twitter! LOL

He gets PAID for his 80 hour week. That's the trade - the employee trades his labor for the employer's money. And neither is compelled to continue the trade if they chose to end it.

Maybe there are people who are willing to trade their personal time and family for that one chance to contribute to something that will change history? I would suspect that such people would be attracted to Elon Musk's direction.

@@seeprompt possible, since many in this interview were convinced they are going to make a difference by working with Elon Musk.

Lol. What you don't realize though is it's not forever and when you do put all that in, the compensation and self value goes way up. It's work ethic and loyalty. Everyone expects everything for nothing these days. Gonna do the same workload as everyone else thinking you deserve a raise the most.

Where did this guy come from ??? Could explain his actions 🤔🤔🤔

Elon musk is imposing the military training mindset. After a year you get used to it and treat it as something normal

Far more than they will at twitter! He used stock options heavily at tesla.

Not become a billionare for sure. 🤭

@@skyak4493 Tesla stocks are down

@@petrichor259 not from where it began, that’s when they put all that work in.

Lots, search on 'how many tesla employees are millionaires'. Also search on the share price and look at the graph back to 2008. Anyone who worked at Tesla got stock options, imagine having 1000 or 10000 shares back then that became $4000 pre-splits.

what a daft & myopic statement. His goal was never to create a car company or a space exploration company. It was to speed up the development and adoption of cars using more sustainable and environmentally friendly fuel. He has done exactly that. Those other companies would not be doing as much or even be as far along in tech without Tesla. He even open sources his tech which none of his competitors do! Second, he has increased the human interest in and industry toward space development and exploration by several degrees of magnitude. His goal is to speed up the probability that we can become space faring. He's doing that. NASA/government is reacting positively to it. It's wonderful. Everyone is benefiting... in both cases. He is THE lightning rod for practical advancement in our time. And being such will undoubtedly come with an abrasive personality and alligators/crabs like yourself who prefer to drag others under. Now, he's put abnormally crazy risk - again - into another enterprise - not to just run another social media company... but to try and create a medium that buffers us all against the advancement of control over information and thought.

@@rifter6176 so naive

@@rifter6176 lithium mining is your idea if sustainable? Ha! That's a new one 😂🤣

Asians are doing just fine with such a workload. The american workforce used to work longer hours and they have fewer divorces and the family ties are much stronger.

@@rifter6176 He won't sleep with you.

You missed the entire point of what he said by leaving out the last line "Don't let him know your name".

Man this generation is so whiny about their jobs

To make the company run efficiently he HAD to get rid of half his staff. What better way to do it then to find out who was truly dedicated to the company and who wasn’t. At the end of the day people had a choice. The only thing he did to them was help them decide. Granted if you have a life outside of Twitter then you are going to feel bitter about choosing to leave, but the end result is a company with only dedicated employees remaining. That is obviously what Elon wanted. It seems cruel, but there is no room for sentiment in business. That’s just one reason why I don’t work, I am way too sensitive for the business world. I have to say life is pretty boring though. Lol.

@@plan4life 100% right, that’s why I worked for the government until I retired.

@@plan4life I guess "dedication" is having a H-1B visa or having zero self respect. As if I'd throw that amount of hours per week for a failson like Musk of all people.

Dodged a howitzer shell, did you? 😹

Your inside connection probably rated you out🤣

pretty sure they're glad too

What would your plan be if you were in charge of Twitter to make it profitable?

@@untouchable360x Imo I think he has good intentions, obviously firing 50% of the workforce to make a profit cause Twitter definitely has too many workers. The main problem was how he went about, over firing too many important workers and the way he went about firing workers without a long enough prior notice. Seems rushed and not the norm. He has the right intentions, poor execution though.

And then he also cut their lunch at Twitter

Envy envy envy, is such a horrible sin

​@@radonsmith4386 cry baby start your own business

indeed. but it's probably the addictive and networking aspects that create it's value. tech is overcapitalized generally, especially when it comes to apps and especially social media apps. it's all ad revenue and speculative investments. i.e. non-critical economy. in many ways it takes capital away from productive economy which in the long term is detrimental to real wealth.

#twitterfiles & #wsjisntevenanews

I'd go even further and say that Twitter is a net negative on our collective. Human society would be much better off without a platform where every individual feels the need to share their "hot take"

"The Problem with Twitter is it doesn't bring much value into people's lives" Really? You may want to query the Democratic party on that one.

Twitter brings a very much appreciated value = the truth

INETRESTING CBS MANY OF EX EPLOYESE NOW EIEGHR WOIKR IN OTEHR HIGH PAYING HIGH POSSITION JOCBS AFTER QUITING OR ARE POACHED BY OTEHR COMOPANIES FOR HUGE AMOUST OF MONEY!! AND SOME CREATED THEIR OWN COMPANIES AFTER WORKING FOR TESLA!?!??!?! OR ANOTEHR FACT IS EMPLOYESE WHO CHSOE PAID IN TESLA STOCK OPTION RACKED HUGE AMOUNST OF MONEY WAY WAY MORE THAN THEY WOULDVE EARNED IF THEY CHOSE REGULAR PAYCHECK BUT HEY LEST NOT MENTION THAT PART OF WORKING FOR TESLA!!!!!

Anyone working for Tesla is smart enough to know what is a good ratio of pay vs time investment. They staid, so it's a good ratio. Stop being dense.

@@ivicamajmunskikreten9714 I don't assume what people know. Obviously people stay and have reasons. Your reasons for throwing out dense are not worth knowing I'm certain.

I wouldn't be surprised that you're surprised cause you are not a good engineer and you don't have any talent that would even qualify you to even think of working for his companies. I know you wouldn't understand. Well, I don't. We are all not from the 1%.

because creating success company not just about having extremely good hard skill

Funny how all of a sudden that Elon Musk is getting all of this negative attention since he bought Twitter in the name of free speech. Only a simpleton couldn’t see that the left are fascist tyrants. OMG, I am sharing my air with morons!

@@vladwochinki3020 Having huge family wealth definitely helps when starting a company.

@@Demaga1234 yes it helps a lot, but creating company like what elon did is second to none

They saved money, but not time. Still, this is good to create more experienced workers in the future, you know how hard is it to be hired when you're not experienced. This is an opportunity

You can't hire below market price. This is a lie. Below market price means that these new grads have better opportunities (in salary, skills, etc...) in another place, which is not the case. That's why some people try to get a job there in the first place

This explains the QC issues of tesla cars.

Nope, more of an ego things for smart people

YES IF YOU DIDNT LISTEN TO WHAT MEDIA SAID AND ACTUALY TOOK TO BE PAID IN TESLA STOCK OPTION RATEHR THAN REGUALR PAY!!! EMPLOYESE THAT OPTED FOR BEING PAID IN TESAL STOCK RATHER THAN REGUALR PAYCHECK RAKED HUGE AMOUNT OF MONEY SO MUCH SO THAT MANY QUIT LATER AND OPENED THEIR OWN COMPANIES THAT WERE MOST LIKELY APRTIALY PAID FROM THSOE ACCUMULATED TESAL STOCKS!!!!!! AS SAID ALO TOF PEOPLE WHO WORKED LITTERALY OUT FO FEAR CBS OF MEDIA MISSINFORMATION AND CONSATNT SAYING HOW TESLA STOCK IS WORTH 0$ AND HWO TESLA WILL SHUT DOWN EACH EYAR MANY SADLY DIDNT TAEK TESLA STOCK AS PAYMENT AND OTED FOR REGULAR PAY. NOW ALOT OF THSE EX EPLOYESE ARE ATATCKING,BARETING OTEHR EX AND CURENT TESLA EMPLOYESE OUT FO JELOSY AND ANGER AND ALSO ALOT ARE BLAMING ELO NA DTESLA FOR THEIR OWN MISATKE FOR BELIEVEING WHAT MAS MEDIA AND INTERNET SAYS OVER WHAT ELON URGED ALL THSOE EYARS. ELON LITTERALY SINCE START WAS CONSATNTLY URGING TESLA EPLOYESE AND FUTRE EPLOYESE TO OPT FOR TESLA STOCK PAYMENT OPTION OVER REGUALR PAY BUT SALDY SOME STILL BELIVED WHAT MEDAI SAYS AND THSOE THAT TOOOK PAID IN STOCK OPTION RACKED HUEG AMOUNT OF MONEY.

No. It’s hard work has its own reward, right?! Lol There are no good billionaires

It’s easy when you’re already inside. You’re compromised on comfort even if the work in uncomfortable. You don’t know what it’s like elsewhere and imagine it could be worse.

Thats exactly what I did. Worked overtime non-stop for about 1.5 years, then got sick with stress and fired. Now I run my own companies and it literally dosen't feel like "work" even though I work 7 days a week. Its is 100& completely something else when working for yourself. I hope I keep at it and NEVER go back to working for someone else making their dreams come true while mine stagnate.

Yes that's what 7 billion people "imagine" daily. Do you think it's realistic for all of these people to be working for themselves? That's just silly man.

@@johnbarrett5229 Only a small percentage of thise 7bil live for their work. Most work to live👍🏻

That's where the option to resign comes in.

Exactly, this is exactly what other people need to hear

SpaceX and Tesla will have more influence on human life than twitter ever did. Either way Elon is a garbage human being and we should move past him as soon as possible.

Well at least Tesla has a product, Twitter was dependent on advertisers using it as a platform and SpaceX is government funded.