Everytime that Elon Musk he opens his mouth, generates endless headlines around his statements. Your recent interview with Chris Anderson, from TED, is clear proof of this. His ventures as a method of philanthropy, life “homeless” and the promise of sex robots were just some of the topics that emerged from this talk, where the CEO of Tesla Y SpaceX he also explained why he spends most of his day at work.
How could it be otherwise, the argument he offered was up to what we could expect from the tycoon of South African origin. It is that Elon Musk assures that at channel the full potential of your thoughts can achieve a millionaire impact on their companies.
Asked how he deals psychologically with the fact that his valuation can go up or down by billions of dollars overnight, the businessman said he doesn’t think too much about it. And he stated that his real concern is to get the most out of each day.
“What is more difficult, and what becomes a problem at bedtime, is that every good hour, or even minute, of thinking about Tesla and SpaceX has such a big effect on the companies that I try to work as hard as possible. that I can, to the limit of sanity, basically. Tesla is getting to a point, or will probably get to it later this year, where every minute of high quality thinking is a million dollar impact. And it’s crazy,” Elon Musk said.
Elon Musk and the millionaire impact of brainstorming
And as if not to fall short in his appreciation, he added: “If Tesla has weekly revenues of 2,000 million dollars, it is something like $300 million per day, seven days a week. […] There were situations where in a half-hour meeting I was able to improve the company’s financial result by $100 million.”
What Elon Musk Says may sound petulant, but he speaks more of the tremendous magnitude that his companies have achieved than of himself. It is true that the tycoon seems to have a special power to make extravagant statements; we saw it in the past when he claimed that his sense of humor gave Tesla free publicity, or when he challenged Vladimir Putin to a duel, or even during the current novel for his attempt to buy Twitter, just to mention a few. .
However, what he exposes here is that companies like Tesla and SpaceX are reaching a point where any number is too small. It is a reality very detached from that of other billions of people, of course, but it is the one they have to face. And not everyone has the poise necessary to get on that tremendous roller coaster of pressures, emotions and obligations.
It is clear that some statements by Elon Musk (or related to him) are sometimes shocking without the necessary context. A clear example of this was the commotion when Grimes said that the tycoon lived “below the poverty line”, referring to the fact that he did not boast luxuries despite being the richest person in the world.
The businessman himself also referred to it, in relation to the criticism that billionaires usually receive. “It would certainly be very problematic if you were spending billions of dollars a year on personal consumption, but that’s not the case. […] The only exception is the plane [por su aeronave privada], but if I don’t use it I have less time to work“, he justified.