Will Elon Musk Run Out of Time to Sleep?

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Will Elon Musk Run Out of Time to Sleep?

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Elon Musk has run out of time to work. He starts his work day, according to his new statement, at the crack of dawn (or before) and works until well after the sun goes down. And he works seven days a week. Added up, he probably works 100 hours per week. Can he keep up the pace with so much at stake among the companies he runs?
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Muck’s primary CEO role has been at Tesla, the world’s largest electric car company and its most valuable. While it is well on the way to selling over a million cars this year, it faces growing competition. Some of this is from the largest car companies in the world. And Tesla has faced such problems as tight supply chains and trouble with self-driving features. He is also defending against shareholder dissatisfaction with his huge pay package.
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Musk also runs the most successful rocket company in the world. SpaceX has taken the lead worldwide for launching satellites and people into space. SpaceX is not only large. Its technology is complicated. With each new launch, the stakes rise about whether the rockets are perfect. And he wants to put people on Mars, a Herculean task.
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Finally, he recently bought Twitter for $44 billion. Almost everyone who knows what tech companies are worth believes he overpaid. Twitter has taken on a debt load of billions of dollars. He has fired nearly 9,000 employees and contractors. Presumably, some of these people are critical to operations. Advertisers, who worry Twitter cannot screen bad actors, have run away from the social medium. Musk claims this exodus is so severe that Twitter might go into bankruptcy. He has to reverse this advertiser behavior or face massive losses.
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If Musk wants to get some sleep, or drops from exhaustion, which of these companies will be short-changed?

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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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