Elon Musk used to get very upset when employees at his first company didn’t continue working after 9:00 p.m., a former colleague recounts in the new documentary BBC.
The Elon Musk Show (He show Elon Musk’s The New York Times uses interviews with his family, friends, employees and enemies to explain his rise to becoming the richest man in the world. The first episode aired in the UK on Wednesday evening.
Jim Ambras, a former vice president at Zip2, says Musk would walk around the office late into the night “to see who was sitting in their cubicles, and there weren’t a lot of people sitting in their cubicles — it was 9 p.m.”
“AND His face turned red, he was so angry that no one from the entire company was there in the office at 9pm.”adds Ambras.
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Zip2, which provided software from online city guides to newspapers, was founded in Palo Alto (USA) by Musk and his brother Kimbal as the Global Link Information Network in 1995.
It was bought by Compaq 4 years later to boost its AltaVista search engine and earned Elon and Kimbal $22 million and $15 million (22.7 million and 15.5 million euros, at current exchange rates) respectively, according to Ashley Vance’s 2015 book. Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future (Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX and the search for a fantastic future).
Branden Spikes, a Zip2 systems engineer also interviewed for the documentary, describes Musk as an “unusual guy” who worked late and then slept under his deskHe also describes the South African as a “know-it-all” who believed he knew “almost everything about everything.”
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Elon Musk’s mother, Maye, who also appears in the network’s documentary BBCShe says that when he was young, it was hard for her to wake him up in the morning because he stayed up all night reading books, so she would dress him while he was still half asleep.
Musk runs Tesla and SpaceX, as well as two smaller companies, Neuralink and The Boring Company.
In 2019, Musk was called the most inspiring leader in technology. However, in a December 2021 episode of the Lex Fridman’s Podcast He said that one should not try to “be a leader for the sake of being a leader”: “The people you want as leaders are those who do not want to be leaders,” he said.
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