Elon Musk spent 24 hours working at Tesla alone on his 47th birthday without friends

Engineer
and tech entrepreneur Elon Musk of The Boring Company listens as
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel talks about constructing a high speed
transit tunnel at Block 37 during a news conference on June 14,
2018 in Chicago, Illinois.
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• In an interview with the New York Times, Elon Musk said
  that he typically works 120 hours a week.
• Musk said he spent his entire 47th birthday alone
  working in Tesla’s offices. 
• Musk said that he hasn’t taken a week-long vacation in
  close to 20 years. 

The growing production pressures and increased scrutiny on Tesla
seem to be taking an emotional toll on the company’s CEO, Elon
Musk.

In an interview with the New York Times, Musk said he
typically works as many as 120 hours a week, and that it’s been
nearly 20 years since he took a week-long vacation.

The last time he took as many as seven days off from work was in
2001, he told the Times, when he fell ill with malaria. 

Musk described his 47th birthday on June 28, 2018, as an
isolated, stressful experience. Rather than celebrating with
friends or family, Musk said he was holed up at Tesla’s offices
for a full 24 hours, overseeing the delayed production on the
Model 3. 

“All night — no friends, nothing,” he
said. 

These recollections were particularly emotional for Musk, reports
the Times, noting that the Tesla CEO choked up during multiple
points throughout the interview. 

Read the full interview over at The New York Times here.

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