Elon Musk Built Tesla and SpaceX While Working Over 100-Hour Weeks. He Says 'Vacations Will Kill You' and the Reasons Behind It Are as Chaotic as You'd Expect.

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Musk said building his companies sometimes required more than 100 hours weekly, and his workload later climbed to about 120 hours after he bought Twitter. "Go to sleep, I wake up, work, go to sleep, ...

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