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by konjin 1912 days ago
If you believe that I have a bridge to sell you.

The reason why he's so motivated is because his compensation package is so ridiculous.

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I think it's fair to say that an extra marginal tens of millions of dollars or so will not affect Musk's life in the slightest. I find it hard to believe that Musk is motivated by money at this point.
I was talking about the 50 billion or so from Tesla: https://observer.com/2019/09/tesla-elon-musk-compensation-pa...

If he is so uninterested by money he can of course show that by giving it to charity.

He was always like that, which is why he did two internships in one summer and dropped out of Stanford to founded Zip2. He slept in the office. They had one computer, so it ran the service during the day and he used it as a dev machine through the night. Some people, that's just the way they are.
Again, if you believe that I have a bridge to sell you.

18 hour days are the "walking barefoot in the snow for three days" of our time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_to_Canossa

Amazing how neither sleep deprivation psychosis nor frost bite are a thing if you're rich enough and talking about how virtuous you are.