SpaceX employee opens up about Elon Musk...

it's just so weird to have a guy like that amongst us you know especially have him as your boss in fact he he measures pretty much every major decision by whether or not it brings the day when we have a self-sustainable colony on mars sooner or later that's the prison by which he makes every like every single decision he makes he makes it through that prison jesus yeah well also the lack of burnout because he's been doing it at this incredible rate 16 hours a day for how long his whole life i think that's nuts i know and he's still hungry for it well he's the next stage of humanity yeah if if people are evolving he's he's like looking at us from the next spot he's like hey guys i've got some ideas he's doing so many different things at the same time it it's it's almost impossible like it i don't understand how he does it yeah i i've seen him do it and i still don't understand it but he's so driven you know and he's such a smart guy and um and he's he's the most he's really the most driven person i think i've ever met i'll give you a story that to kind of illustrate it once um when i first got hired by spacex we did an interview with 60 minutes and they interviewed elon and myself uh and scott pelley was the uh anchor he talked to us and he said to me why did you leave nasa and come work for spacex you had like the best gig in the world you know going up on rockets and stuff why would you do that and um i said well if you can go back in time and you're a young engineer and you had the opportunity to like get in on the ground floor and work with howard hughes when he was like doing all the crazy stuff he was doing in his day wouldn't you want to be a part of that and scott pelley looked at me like with a deer in the headlights because i don't think he knew what i was talking about but i was like that's but then i realized as soon as i say that like oh my god i just made a terrible strategic error i compared my boss to howard hughes you know things didn't end up that well for howard you know he went crazy right he went kind of crazy washed his hands too much and germaphobe he was peeing in jars and like his fingernails grew out like hmm yeah and i was like oh no i really kind of stepped in it right so you don't want to say that about the boss right so uh it took a while it was like months later we were driving in a rental car just the two of us in florida we were at a meeting at nasa and we were driving back to the airport to get on his airplane to come back to la and i'm driving the car he's sitting in the passenger seat and i said hey boss remember that time we're on tv and i compared to the howard hughes you know i just want you to know i was comparing you to the young dashing starlet dating howard hughes not the old decrepit ping and jars fingernail guy it's all about the timeline yeah yeah and i i was and and all he got back was silence and now i'm really scared right and uh i'm sitting there like waiting for him to say something and elaine will do this and and i he did this on your show right he he kind of like if you if he posed to him a serious question he'll consider it and he'll kind of go into this almost like a trance he'll stare off into spaces and you can see the wheels turning he's like focusing all of his intellect which is considerable on this one question and that's what was happening so i waited and then he turned back to me and said you know garrett uh i don't think it's an apt comparison i said oh okay uh good good uh why but i'm curious why do you think that and he said well none of howard none of howard's designs as brilliant as they were ended up really changing the way we live our lives so we don't send like he made the spruce goose which is an incredible airplane it was all wood you know trying to solve uh the problem during the war of rationing he said we don't send our our goods across the oceans and giant wooden airplanes we don't do that um the h1 racer was a beautiful airplane but it was a one-off it never really led to a large cert designs that changed the way people lived their lives so that was his objection was not that like i was comparing him to some creep but that he wants it's really important to him to have the legacy of drastically impacting the way all of us live our lives so kind of the way steve jobs did or others that that really moved the ball downfield for humanity that's what's driving he's such an unusual human i mean there's very very few people that you could make any kind of rational comparison to other than maybe nikola tesla will you really stop and think what he's done yeah and the fact that he does them all simultaneously that he's involved in the boring project he's involved in tesla and spacex all simultaneously and tesla home solar all the the solar panels and the making solar tiles for roofs and he's doing so many different things at the same time it it's it's almost impossible like it i don't understand how he does it yeah i i've seen him do it and i still don't understand it you know it's like i'm i kind of burn myself out just trying to do one of those things yeah he does all of them and and um i mean he does have all the advantages of wealth which helps you know so like he'll have meetings with us and he'll walk out of his last meeting and he'll walk across the street to hawthorne airport hop on his jet and he's at palo alto in a couple hours and he can be first thing in the morning at tesla right and he's got a staff that helps him and you know he's got those advantages um but he he uh that isn't in any way describe what he or or that doesn't explain why he's able to do what he does i don't know how he does it to be honest well he's the next stage of humanity yeah if people are evolving he's he's like looking at us from the next spot he's like hey guys uh i've got some ideas yeah he's just an idea factory and and um he his uh uh what's really remarkable to me is is the breadth of his knowledge i mean i've met a lot of super super smart people but they're usually super super smart on one thing and he's able to have conversations with our top engineers about the software and you know the most arcane aspects of that and then he'll turn to our manufacturing engineers and and have discussions about some really esoteric welding process for some crazy alloy and and he'll just go back and forth and his ability to do that across all the different technologies that go into rockets and cars and everything else he does that's what really impresses me well also the lack of burnout because he's been doing it at this incredible rate 16 hours a day for how long his whole life i think that's nuts i know and he's still hungry for it and he's still taking on these new projects and new ideas and it's just so weird to have a guy like that amongst us you know especially have him as your boss it's really weird have you talked to him at all about simulation theory we never the thing is when every time i talk to him we focused on and this is what he does you know he focuses on the thing that we are working on so he just that's one of the ways he does his time management that's one of the ways he is able to do all these things is like he doesn't sit around and and and and bs with you about like what's going on with um was the nora link the company we're just making the chips that go oh that's right i forgot about that that's the other thing he does that one he's changing the way humans interface with data he never said to me like garrett what do you think about having a chip in your head that like never he doesn't do that he talks to the people who really know about chips and people and putting chips in people's head he talks to them about it uh in fact he he measures pretty much every major decision by whether or not it brings the day when we have a self-sustainable colony on mars sooner or later that's the prism by which he makes every like every single decision he makes he makes it through that prison jesus yeah so he's got an idea and he'll keep pushing and you know he gives us aggressive timelines that we have to work to and we work really hard to try to try to meet them it's hard when you're doing stuff that this is complicated to predict exactly how long it's going to take so you know we end up often falling a little bit behind but we do our best you

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Length: 8min 32sec (512 seconds)

Published: Sat Nov 13 2021