Entrepreneurship 20 years, Musk has created a lot of great wonders.
And now he's going through the darkest hour of his life. Musk not only faced the market's questioning of MODEL3 's mass production plan, but was also constantly angered by the sell-off of Tesla stocks, and the global media looked at him more harshly.
Under pressure, Musk, through Twitter, hastily announced a radical plan to privatize Tesla.
The news, which had not been vetted by anyone, caused a sensation on social networks and immediately lifted Tesla's share price, but embarrassed Musk and Tesla's board, who had to go to court with a subpoena-issuing regulator. Musk, who has always been conceited and mighty, showed a rare fragility during a weekend interview with the New York Times. He admits that he has too much responsibility, so that his body is already a little overwhelmed. ' Although the worst is over for Tesla from an operational standpoint, the worst is yet to come from my personal perspective. When I met my friends, they all started to worry about me.
' Musk once choked.
But his weakness not only failed to win the sympathy of the market, but was considered to be substandard, and Tesla's share price plunged nearly 9% on the day, the worst day in two years, and the market capitalisation evaporated by billions of dollars. Musk's situation may be felt by many entrepreneurs. They are very good, talented, visionary, and the world needs their advanced ideas.
But precisely because of their extraordinary place, they become lonely, not understood, often paranoid ego, do not know how to deal with people around, easily missing relatives and friends of support and love, and did not master how to give others love skills, so the growth of their spiritual world is not complete. So we can also understand why Musk said that he had to choose between insomnia and sleeping pills every night. Tesla's board believes that some of his actions have been affected by sleeping pills, and that sleeping pills don't even make them sleep, but instead make him addicted to Twitter and talk on social media all night and night.
Moreover, Musk insists it will not stop using social media. Musk may be Trump, the most popular American celebrity Twitter. He recalls the morning when he and his girlfriend woke up to a privatisation Twitter that decided on his fate, and then Musk drove his models to the airport, which he sent on his way to the airport.
At the time he was hesitant about whether to privatize when the share price was 419 dollars or 420 dollars, eventually choosing an integer. After arriving at the airport, Musk on his private jet to Nevada State's Tesla Super Battery factory, where he looked at the assembly line.
That night, Musk flew back to Silicon Valley overnight and continued to meet Tesla's top brass until the next morning. The intensity of such work is not something that ordinary people can afford, and entrepreneurs need to give up time to spend with their family and friends. As Musk himself said, he hasn't had a full day of vacation since 2001. Even on his June 28 birthday, is also 24 hours overtime work, did not see a friend, nothing.
At his brother's wedding, he arrived only two hours early, and immediately after the wedding, he flew back to the company's headquarters. If you really have to work more than 120 hours a week, which means working nearly 20 hours a day, then anyone may be unable to control their emotions and be irritated-Musk is impatient with analysts and can be understood.
After all, like Amazon's Bezos, every day can not adjust the alarm clock, to ensure that 8 hours of sleep sleep to wake up, but also with his wife breakfast is not many founders. It is really rare for an entrepreneur to find a balance between work and life.
Sometimes even choose to start this road, it means to give up the normal life, may be a long time to see the closest people around, but also because of the pressure of the work of the people around the change of attitude. Under the weight of the spirit, there are few people who can survive and hold on to the end, and they are also the few people who will succeed in the end.
If it doesn't, it can only quit and give way to others, such as Uber, founder of Kalanik, who resigned last year, who was under pressure from a series of scandals at the company and unable to move forward because of family changes. There have been rumours that Tesla had been looking for a 2nd figure to share the weight of the musk last year, but he denied the claim. Apparently, he has not yet planned to abandon any of the two positions of Chairman and CEO, although he said verbally that if he could find someone better than him, he would immediately give up his seat.