- He is often regarded as the weirdest billionaire with an unfanciful lifestyle. He is the billionaire with no yatch, no wife, no mansions and no birthday parties. Elon Musk is the world’s richest man. However, he has no need for extravagance and luxury. He works more than the normal person, as a matter of fact.
Musk work 85 to 100 hours per week. His schedule allows him 42 hours out of every week at Tesla and 40 hours at SpaceX. He doesn’t actually require a 30-minute lunch break. Instead, he consolidates it with meetings to expand his efficiency. Elon Musk awakens consistently everyday around 7am. He just prefers to rest for something like 6 hours every night.
Most unusual for a billionaire, Musk doesn’t own a house. He used to own seven at a certain point. Be that as it may, in 2020, he declared he would sell them all. What’s more, he did. Musk’s land portfolio was esteemed at $102 million. However, presently he resides in a secluded house at SpaceX premises. Indeed, even before that, he frequently dozed on the sofa at Tesla headquarters.
“I’m literally staying at friends places, if I travel to Bay Area, which is where most of Tesla engineering is, I basically rotate through friends’ spare bedrooms,” Musk said recently. Musk doesn’t own a yacht or a fleet of vehicles. He owns a private plane, the Gulf stream GC50R. In any case, Musk insists the airplane is a need. “If I don’t use the plane, then I have less hours to work.”
He doesn’t take vacations, so his air travel is strictly business related. Musk’s girlfriend, Grimes once said he lived, “below the poverty line.” She said, he would not even replace an old sleeping mattress. Infact, Grimes criticised Musk’s frugality, ” I was like can we not live in a very insecure $40,000 house? Where the neighbours films us, and there’s no security and I’m eating peanut butter for eight days in a row?”, she said.
Elon Musk and Grimes have two kids together. However they have never married and are currently separated. Musk has been hitched multiple times to two women. He wedded his subsequent spouse, Talulah Riley, two times. Elon Musk don’t actually like to speak about his personal life.
He hates celebrating his birthdays. A fan once approached him what he’d like for his 50th birthday celebration. “Starship Super Heavy,” Musk answered. He was obviously alluding to an orbital trip of SpaceX’s rocket. The rocket’s first launch was slated for 2022.
Musk is estimated to worth over $300 billion. However, he doesn’t utilise this cash to live extravagantly. Instead, he argued his companies benefits the humankinds.
“Tesla is accelerating sustainable energy. SpaceX, is trying to ensure the long term survival of humanity with a multiple planet species.
“Neuralink is trying to help solve the brain injuries and existential risk with AI. The Boring company is trying to solve traffic, which is hell for most people.
All this, Musk says, “is love of humanity. He added that what drives him is philanthropy, “For sure, it would be very problematic, if I was consuming billion of dollars a year in personal consumption. But that’s not the case, ” he said.
When Musk was starting out, he was even more frugal. He limited his food budget to $1 a day. “My threshold for existing was pretty low. So I figured I could be in some dingy apartment with my computer and be okay, and not starve,” he said.
It seems wealth has not changed him.
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