In detail, Musk now controls six companies:
Tesla, Twitter, rocket-making spacex, brain-computer interface neuralink, tunnel-digging boring and a newly founded artificial intelligence company xai.
Even if we allocate one day a week to each company, we can only do it barely, and we have practiced time management to the extreme.
(Musk’s six major companies)
After he acquired Twitter, the world discovered his time management secret: This person never rests at all.
One day just a few weeks after he took over Twitter, employees woke up and found an email in their mailbox. It was sent by Musk late at night, asking them to work crazy overtime with him, or else they would get severance pay and leave. .
He is an out-and-out workaholic. He regards overtime as the norm and really doesn't think there is anything wrong with it.
His company often gets negative news about high work pressure, because in his eyes, it is "natural" for employees to work overtime with him, and he is even more cruel to himself.
Such a workaholic manages 6 companies, which is very reasonable.
However, there is news today that there may be something else that can support his crazy work...
wsj found a group of insiders, some of whom have even seen him taking drugs with their own eyes.
According to them, Musk often takes drugs at private parties around the world, smoking a variety of things, including hallucinogens (LSD), cocaine, ecstasy, hallucinogenic mushrooms and ketamine.
For example, in 2018, he took several hallucinogens at a party in Los Angeles; in 2019, at an event in Mexico, he took hallucinogenic mushrooms;
And he not only took it himself , and took others with him.
In 2021, at a family gathering during the Basel Art Exhibition in Miami, he and his younger brother Kimbal (Kimbal Musk) took ketamine together;
It is true that a family does not stay in the same house. In June last year, Musk’s younger siblings participated in the National He also spoke on stage at the largest psychedelics seminar (some studies have shown that psychedelics can reduce the risk of suicide).
Kimbal tweeted to support his wife, saying that he was very proud of her. It seems that this family supports psychedelic drugs.
(Kimbal tweeted in support of his wife)
In addition, former Tesla board member and current SpaceX board member Steve Jurvetson also took illegal drugs with Musk.
(steve jurvetson and Musk)
The reason why there has been no news for so many years is because you have to sign a confidentiality agreement before entering those private parties, or you are not allowed to bring your mobile phone.
However, there are still some traces of drug use. At the end of 2017, SpaceX held a company event, and hundreds of employees were waiting for Musk to come to the meeting at the California Mission Center. As a result, he was nearly an hour late. After
finally started to speak, he behaved very strangely. His words were vague and difficult to understand, and he repeatedly made inappropriate jokes.
said that SpaceX's "Big Falcon" rocket is called big falcon rocket, which is homophonic to "big fxxking" rocket”......
In the end, President Gwynne Shotwell had no choice but to interrupt him and chair the meeting herself.
In fact, the company's executives at the time had some speculation: Musk was probably high.
In 2018, he smoked marijuana on Joe Rogan’s podcast, causing public outcry.
(Musk smokes marijuana)
Within a week, Tesla’s stock price plummeted 9%, and the company’s accounting director and human resources director resigned on the same day;
Another of his companies, SpaceX, was also investigated by the U.S. Air Force because the company followed the military Fang signed several large contracts.
(Air Force investigating spacex)
However, since marijuana has been legalized in some countries and regions, this matter has been regarded as amusement to a certain extent. Netizens turned the scenes of him smoking into memes, and it was over after a while.
By 2023, the Wall Street Journal reported that Musk was using low doses of ketamine to treat depression and was using higher doses privately for "recreation."
Soon after, Musk expressed his positive attitude towards ketamine on Twitter:
"In the United States, people diagnosed with depression may not actually be depressed, but for some people, it is indeed a problem with brain chemistry."
"But it is undeniable that doctors are overprescribing SSRIs (a general term for anti-depressant and anxiety drugs), leading to the zombification of patients."
"From the experience of my friends, taking ketamine occasionally is a better choice."
(Musk's original words)
In addition, searching for "ketamine" on his Twitter, you can also see that he has repeatedly expressed similar views:
"The people I have seen who have been helped by psychedelics and ketamine are definitely better than those who have been helped by psychedelics and ketamine." SSRIs and amphetamines have helped more people."
"In my opinion, it's much better to take ketamine occasionally. I can be particularly negative at times, and I have a prescription for that."
(Musk's Original words)
This is his own admission that he will take ketamine.
Maybe in Musk’s eyes, marijuana and ketamine have been partially legalized, so they don’t count as breaking the bottom line.
However, we just mentioned a while ago that the cause of death of "Friends" actor Matthew Perry was a ketamine overdose.
He was also exposed to ketamine to treat depression, and eventually died from it.
(Matthew Perry died from ketamine)
This is true for the so-called "safe" ketamine, let alone the other messy things Musk smoked.
You have to know that if something happens to him in his position, the stocks of many people will fall and the jobs of many employees will be lost.
Everyone around him expressed that they were very worried about his health problems. Even if his health was fine, his business might be affected;
Even if his business was fine, SpaceX still cooperates with the Pentagon and NASA, and the U.S. space program might be disrupted... ...
(SpaceX’s rockets are printed with the NASA logo)
This has led to too many people not wanting him to take drugs. It is not just a disgust for the drugs themselves. If you really can't control him, you can only look for opportunities to cut ties.
The representative of the "separatist faction" is Linda Johnson Rice. She joined the Tesla board of directors in 2017, but only served for two years before quitting.
She was dissatisfied with Musk's He was very worried about the rumors of erratic behavior and drug use. At one point, he asked if he should be investigated, but he was refused.
When the directors changed in 2019, she actively sought not to be re-elected and decisively cut off from Musk.
(Linda Johnson Rice)
However, it is undeniable that following Musk can indeed make money, so not everyone is like Rice and stays away from him. Musk is also famous for his love of talking. They can only endure it.
According to people familiar with the matter, Tesla’s current chairman of the board, Robyn Denholm (robyn denholm), and some other directors have long heard rumors about Musk’s drug abuse and have been talking to each other privately for many years, but only in private. , there is no formal meeting.
By 2018, Musk said on Twitter that he was considering withdrawing Tesla from the stock market at a price of $420 per share and becoming privatized.
In rap, 420 is the code for smoking marijuana.
(420 is often associated with marijuana)
Musk may think he is very humorous, but he does not know that his words and deeds represent the attitude of his companies. This tweet frightened the directors-should this guy Will he take drugs again?
Finally, they came up with a solution: his brother Kimbal is also one of the directors, so let him intervene.
’s original words are: “They seek his help to solve Musk’s behavioral problems.” - At this point, they still only dare to talk about “behavioral problems” and avoid the word “drugs” like a snake or a scorpion.
In the end, the result of Musk's "humor" was that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission opened an investigation against Tesla. The company was in turmoil, and Musk himself was forced to temporarily resign as chairman.
If you ignore his jokes and just look at the results, it is indeed quite humorous...
(Musk)
In fact, in other companies, the board of directors does not use it at all and will not be so cautious. It doesn’t matter whether you are taking drugs or not, as long as your words and deeds have an impact on your business, you will have to bear the consequences.
In 2020, Tony Hsieh, CEO of the shoe company Zappos, was exposed for abusing ketamine, which led to the intervention of parent company Amazon, which suspended Hsieh from his job and gave him a few months to quit.
But in the end Xie didn’t quit and had to leave the company sadly. At the end of the year he locked himself in a shed, which caught fire, and he burned to death inside.
Afterwards, people found cigarettes, laughing gas bottles, marijuana pipes and wine bottles at the scene. No one knew whether he begged to die or got high and had fun. No one was there, and it didn't matter anymore.
(Tony Xie)
After watching him, and then looking at Tesla’s group of directors who are walking on thin ice, I can only say that the fate of people is really different...
Let’s talk about Musk, because he openly smokes marijuana and When it comes to 420, regulatory agencies are keeping a close eye on him. The United States has a Drug-Free Workplace Act, which literally means that drugs are prohibited in the workplace.
The US government has signed a large contract of more than 14 billion US dollars with SpaceX, and it is even less likely to tolerate sand in its eyes.
After he openly smoked marijuana in 2018, NASA asked SpaceX to write a guarantee requiring them to comply with the "Drug-Free Workplace Act".
also conducted a year-long drug test at the company, which ended up costing another 500. Ten thousand dollars for employee training.
During this period, executives from other Musk companies also began to warn employees to abide by company rules, which essentially meant asking them not to take drugs, even outside the office, for fear of being investigated by regulatory agencies.
According to people familiar with the matter, spacex would even randomly appear drug-detecting dogs to ensure that employees were not carrying drugs...
(schematic diagram)
Opening a company for this purpose can be considered as his contribution to the anti-drug cause Contributed...
Of course, Musk himself will definitely not admit it. The "Musk Biography" was published a while ago, and he said in it:
"I really don't like taking illegal drugs (i really don't like doing illegal drugs."
I don't know whether this should be interpreted as "it doesn't matter if it's legal drugs"...
"The Wall Street Journal" also contacted Musk, and as expected, , he didn’t respond.
His lawyer Alex Spiro (Alex Spiro) claimed that he could represent Tesla. He refuted wsj's statement, said that Musk would receive "regular inspections and random inspections at SpaceX, and never failed." Pass".
In addition, "other statements in this article are not entirely true." As for what was untrue, he did not elaborate.
(Alex Spiro)
Again, to a large extent, Musk’s life is not only his own. He has lost the privilege of telling bad jokes and fooling around like a young man.
Unfortunately, he doesn't seem to realize this himself.
Predictably, after this report came out, the number of investors who were optimistic about his company would decrease again. That is to say, the U.S. stock market is closed on the weekend, otherwise Tesla’s stock price would probably have collapsed at this time...
When the market opens tomorrow, it will be another tragedy...
