Why Elon Musk called an all-hands meeting at 1 in the morning on a Sunday (and what it says about him)

CNBC ^ | Catherine Clifford

[RoosterRedux]

There’s hard core, and then there’s Elon Musk.

Musk called an all-hands meeting at his SpaceX spacecraft factory in Boca Chica Beach, Texas — at 1 a.m. on Sunday, Feb. 23, according to a story published Thursday by Ars Technica.

The billionaire SpaceX and Tesla boss is known for setting outlandish goals (and sometimes missing them). And in the wee hours of the Sunday, he wanted to know from his team why his factory wasn’t running 24-7 to build the Starship rocket system (which will eventually take crew and cargo to Mars).

Musk’s engineering team explained they needed more people to take shifts. So over the next 48 hours, SpaceX hired 252 workers, doubling the workforce at that factory, Ars Technica reported.

The vignette is telling about what it is like to work for Musk.

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“Elon has this incredible optimism, where he will pierce through these imagined constraints and show you that really a lot more is possible that you really think is today,” Hodak said in 2019 at the California Academy of Sciences.

In a Tweet recruiting talent to work for his companies, Musk himself acknowledged he can be hard to work for.

“There are way easier places to work, but nobody ever changed the world on 40 hours a week,” Musk tweeted.

[markman46]

i heard that too, guess they made the sats less bright..
i dont need the service!!, but give spacex props for trying to solve the rural sub internet sped issue

[markman46]

as an aside i am watching what is called a wet dress Rehearsal of the starship on youtube no less