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☆ An enduring food favorite of Elon Musk across 3 decades is Jack in the Box's teriyaki bowl
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-13 | by ( Kai Xiang Teo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Musk's favorite dish there was the teriyaki bowl, which he ordered again when he revisited the chain along with Walter Isaacson. AdvertisementAdvertisement"I can still tell you every single menu item," Kimbal told Isaacson, "It's just seared into my brain." Musk told Isaacson, "I'm supposed to be fasting now, but I just have to get something here." Jack in the Box is a fast food chain founded in 1951. Musk isn't alone in loving fast food staples — Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are also self-declared fans of Coca-Cola.

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☆ Elon Musk has been a sleep-deprived, workaholic since starting his first business. Those habits set the stage for a bitter RTO battle among CEOs.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Elon Musk has been a workaholic since at least 1995. Musk's obsession with work has set a precedent for CEOs who are aggressively enforcing RTO policies. AdvertisementAdvertisementJim Ambras, an early employee at Zip2, recalled that Elon Musk had no pillow or sleeping bag. This kind of approach to work has stayed with Elon Musk throughout his career. AdvertisementAdvertisementMany of Elon Musk's and other CEOs' employees excel in their roles but have little interest in pursuing a workaholic, "hardcore" lifestyle.

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☆ When working together at Zip2, Elon Musk had to go to the ER for stitches and a tetanus shot after his brother, Kimbal, once tore off a hunk of flesh from his hand
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Kimbal Musk bit Elon Musk and "tore off a hunk of flesh" off his hand during a fight in the 1990s. Elon Musk had to go to the emergency room for stitches and a tetanus jab. Kimbal Musk bit his brother because he thought Elon Musk was about to punch him in the face, the book said. "When we had intense stress, we just didn't notice anyone else," Kimbal Musk told Isaacson. Kimbal Musk, just over a year younger than Elon Musk, also moved in with Errol around four years later.

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☆ Musk's college friend quit working with him at Zip2 after only 6 weeks: 'I knew I could either be working with him or be his friend, but not both'
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Polly Thompson | Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Farooq came to work for Musk at his first company, Zip2, but quit just six weeks into the job. Farooq told biographer Walter Isaacson that he soon "found himself in fights with Musk." In 1995, Musk was in the midst of getting his first company, Zip2, off the ground with his brother, Kimbal. "We completely entered a zone for hours until we were exhausted," Farooq told Isaacson. But working under the notoriously intense Musk was too much for Farooq and he lasted just six weeks at Zip2 before quitting.

Persons: Navaid Farooq, Elon Musk's, Farooq, Musk, Walter Isaacson, Kimbal, Elon Musk Farooq, Walter Isaacson's, Isaacson, Elon Musk, Bauer, Griffin, FilmMagic, Lyndon, Peter Rive, Tesla, Peter Thiel, Thiel Organizations: Queen's University, Canada, Service, YMCA, Zip2, PayPal, SpaceX Locations: Wall, Silicon, Canada, Ontario

☆ Elon Musk's X is hiring, and the Diet Coke-loving billionaire says soda machines will be a perk
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-08 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk replied to posts about it saying the company is getting soda machines. Daniel O'Shea, an X employee whose LinkedIn profile lists him as the director of engineering, shared a post that uses X Hiring. X Hiring appears to be part of Elon Musk's ambitions to turn the platform into an "everything app." But, perhaps allaying concerns over an exacting work environment, Musk is trying to tempt job seekers with soda machines. "We're getting some of those machines that make any kind of soda on demand," Musk added.

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☆ Elon Musk plans to rebrand Twitter as 'X' — an idea that harkens back to the CEO's early days when he was ousted from PayPal
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-24 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Elon Musk announced Saturday that he plans to rebrand Twitter and change the bird logo to 'X.' Musk previously wanted X to be the name of a banking services site now known as PayPal. Musk said a new "interim" X logo will go live Sunday. Elon Musk in Palo Alto, California, on August 7, 2000. According to Ashlee Vance's biography "Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future," almost everyone in the company preferred the name PayPal.

Persons: Elon Musk, Musk, Elon, Pauline Lubens, Julie Anderson Ankenbrandt, Ankenbrandt, x.com, X.com, Peter Thiel, Max Levchin, Musk's, Thiel, Ashlee Vance's Organizations: Twitter, PayPal, MediaNews, Mercury, Getty, Elon, SpaceX, X Corp Locations: Silicon Valley, Palo Alto , California, Palo Alto, Nevada

☆ Elon Musk told Chinese Tesla workers in a late night speech that their hard work 'warms my heart' — 6 weeks after some complained about bonus cuts
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

He told them their hard work "warms my heart" and is "very important" for the world. In a late night speech, Elon Musk told Tesla workers at the Shanghai Gigafactory that their hard work "warms my heart." "I just want to let you know, it warms my heart," Musk said, tapping his chest before a fist pump. Tesla workers then criticized Musk on Chinese social media, and some people even complained to his mom on Twitter. Musk told CNBC he sleeps around six hours a night, and according to Jimmy Soni's book "The Founders," Musk was "perpetually sleep-deprived" at his first startup, Zip2.

Persons: Elon Musk, It's, Musk, Shanghai Gigafactory, he's, Tesla, He's, Jimmy Soni's Organizations: Tesla's Shanghai Gigafactory, Shanghai, Global Times, Reuters, Twitter, San Francisco, CNBC, Bloomberg Locations: China, San José del Cabo, Mexico, Shanghai

☆ Elon Musk's mom says she has slept on 'mattresses or blankets on the floor' when she visits her billionaire son
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-11 | by ( Sarah Jackson | Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Maye Musk said she has slept on blankets on the floor when visiting her son, Elon Musk. In the past, she has said she's slept in the garage at his house near SpaceX's launch site. Musk has said he lives in a $45,000 converted two-bedroom house in Texas, and also couch hops. On Tuesday, she said on Twitter that she has "many memories of sleeping on mattresses or blankets on the floor, on couches, or a bed in the garage" when she visits her son. Elon's mother made the comment in response to a tweet in which the billionaire said he'd "slept on a friend's couch last weekend."

☆ Elon Musk's office sleeping habits have existed since the early 1990s, according to a book about his first startup
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-05 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Per "The Founders," Musk's company rented a "spartan Palo Alto office space," and he would sleep at the office and shower at the nearby YMCA. Soon after taking over Twitter, Musk similarly said he would be sleeping at the office "until the org is fixed." Back at Zip2, Soni describes a "perpetually sleep-deprived" Musk openly berating other executives and colleagues in 1996. Musk's sleeping habits continued at his second company, too, as the company's cofounder Harris Fricker told Soni. In February, Musk said he has worked an average of more than 120 hours a week after taking over Twitter.

☆ Meet Maye Musk, the Sports Illustrated cover model and the glamorous mother of one of the richest men in the world
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-04 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Despite her support for her children, Maye Musk has been a celebrity in her own right for decades. Maye Musk Maye Musk attended the Met gala with Elon Musk last year. "They followed their passions, and they all went in different directions," Maye Musk told Insider in a 2020 interview. Elon Musk, in particular, had tried his hardest in school, but only in the subjects he liked, Maye Musk said. Even at 14 years old, Maye Musk said Elon Musk had shown a passion for investing.

☆ Self-made millionaire: Here are 8 things rich people do differently that make them 'ultra wealthy'
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-29 | by ( Grant Cardone | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

But I wish I had known sooner how ultra wealthy people think about money. Instead, cash-flow real estate is the place to protect and grow money. On the flip side, cash-flow real estate — commercial real estate where you are making a monthly profit off of rent after your mortgage payments, property taxes and maintenance — is a great way to grow your money. This can apply to a business — the rich may contract to buy bulk supplies or equipment — or to you personal life. And most of the real estate I own today was purchased from sellers who picked me over other qualified buyers because we had existing relationships, and they had confidence in my ability to close.

☆ Peter Thiel thinks Elon Musk is a ‘fraud,’ and 6 other unexpected details about the billionaires' love-hate relationship
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-02 | by ( Dorothy Cucci | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Thiel and his allies conspired against Musk and replaced him as PayPal CEO while Musk was on his honeymoon. In a new biography, Max Chafkin shares surprising details about Thiel and Musk's relationship, through all of its ups and downs. Here are seven surprising details about Musk and Thiel that provide a glimpse into their long and often-fraught relationship. A source who spoke to both men said that Musk thinks Thiel is "a sociopath," and Thiel considers Musk "a fraud." Musk and Thiel, while longtime collaborators, are fundamentally opposites: Musk is considered an outgoing, eccentric risk-taker, and Thiel is known as a cautious introvert.

☆ Tosca Musk, Elon’s sister, has a business venture of her own – and it’s all about romance and female sexuality
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-20 | by ( Faith Karimi Cnn Photographs Austin Steele | Faith Karimi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +15 min

It’s their first public film premiere since the pandemic started. Musk, 48, is the force behind Passionflix, which adapts romance novels into movies and streams them to a devoted niche audience. “Passionflix focuses on adapting romance novels exactly as the fan and the author envision it,” Musk says in a separate CNN interview. From left to right: Tosca Musk, Kimbal Musk, mother Maye Musk and Elon Musk at Maye's 50th birthday party in 1998. One of the founding members, she says she spent the pandemic years curled up on her couch, watching Passionflix movies.

☆ Twitter staffers are sleeping in the office—ex-Apple engineer who worked on the iPhone says it's totally unnecessary
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Tom Huddleston Jr. | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

For some Twitter employees under Elon Musk, sleeping in the office appears to be an absolute must — the physical embodiment of the tech industry's "hustle culture." It's also totally unnecessary, says Ken Kocienda, a former Apple software engineer and designer who helped build the first iPhone and iPad. "I was on these [Apple] teams from the earliest stages and I never once came close to sleeping at the office. It's not an essential part of doing great work," he wrote in a Twitter post on Sunday. The "hustle porn" trend of tech founders and executives bragging about working around the clock and sleeping in their offices is nothing new.

☆ Twitter staff enjoy a flexible work culture. Self-described nano-manager Elon Musk will change that.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-27 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Elon Musk is close his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter by Friday and staff are worried. Musk's 'autocratic' leadership style is likely to clash with a flexible work culture, one workplace expert says. Elon Musk is set to buy Twitter for $44 billion by Friday and, as the deadline looms, staff are anticipating a big vibe shift in its work culture. Here are some of the perks Twitter staff enjoy now that may change under Musk. Flexible working policiesTwitter is famed for generous, flexible working policies.

☆ Elon Musk can be like a 'toddler' having a 'tantrum,' Tesla's former marketing chief said. 'I was seeing this person that was taken by anger.'
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( Sam Tabahriti | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk can be like a "toddler" having a "tantrum," Tesla's former marketing chief said. Colette Bridgman made the comments in an interview for a BBC documentary called "The Elon Musk Show", which examines how Musk became the world's richest person. "I wasn't seeing Elon – I was seeing this person that was taken by anger. Because if Elon Musk can take the time to sleep there and be there 24 hours a day, everyone else should make the time." "The Elon Musk Show" won't be broadcast outside the UK, the BBC said, citing rights issues.

☆ SpaceX's former talent chief says she took 'the bad with the good' when working for Elon Musk. 'If you mess with the recipe you might mess with the magic.'
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-19 | by ( Sam Tabahriti | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

SpaceX's former talent chief said she took "the bad with the good" when working for Elon Musk. Dolly Singh told a new BBC documentary: "If you mess with the recipe, you mess with the magic." "If you mess with the recipe you mess with the magic," Dolly Singh told a new BBC documentary. "The Elon Musk Show" uses interviews with his family, friends, employees – and enemies – to explain his rise to become the world's richest man. "The Elon Musk Show" won't be broadcast outside the UK, the BBC said, citing rights issues.

☆ Elon Musk would get 'really angry' when employees at his first company Zip2 weren't still working at 9 o'clock at night, an ex-colleague told a BBC documentary
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( Sam Tabahriti | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk would get very angry when staff at his first company, Zip2, weren't working after 9 p.m.A former Zip2 worker, Jim Ambras, told a new BBC documentary that Musk's face "would turn red." The Elon Musk Story uses interviews with his family, friends, employees – and enemies – to explain his rise to become the world's richest man. It was bought by Compaq four years later to boost its AltaVista search engine and netted Elon and Kimbal $22 million and $15 million respectively, according to Ashley Vance's 2015 book "Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future." Branden Spikes, a systems engineer at Zip2 also interviewed for the documentary, described Musk as an "unusual fellow" who would work late and then sleep under his desk. Elon Musk's mother, Maye, who also appears in the BBC documentary, said that when he was young she would struggle to wake him up in the morning because he would stay up all night reading books.

☆ Topul celor mai bogați oameni din lume în anul 2021, conform revistei Forbes
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-07 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +5 min

Așadar, mai jos găsiți topul celor 10 miliardari care sunt considerați cei mai bogați oameni din lume în anul 2021. Acum, acesta este directorul general al companiei și deține 16 % din aceasta. Studii: Bezos este licențiat în „Arte și Științe”, Universitatea Princeton din SUA. Cu toate acestea, și-a pierdut interesul pentru educație și a renunțat la universitate după un semestru. Studii: este licențiat în „Arte și Științe” la Universitatea Michigan, are un masterat în științe la Universitatea Stanford.

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