130-hour weeks, years without vacation, and the 3.45am wakeup: The work habits of Elon Musk, Tim Cook, and the Silicon Valley elite
Tech CEOs and executives in Silicon Valley display unique traits that inform the success of their companies, and which might seem pretty extreme to the average person.We looked at the habits of 10 tech CEOs, founders, and execs who have developed seemingly strange or unique habits in a bid to keep their companies successful.When you run the most valuable company, or one of the most valuable companies, in the world, it takes considerable personal resilience to get ahead.
Executives from Tesla CEO Elon Musk to Apple CEO Tim Cook have spoken about the punishing routines they follow to stay on top of work. Musk spends birthdays at the Tesla offices, while Cook barely gets any sleep. While critics suggest such habits amount to "hustle porn" that will lead most people to burnout, Cook says he for one doesn't view what he does as extreme.Mark Cuban's holiday aversionclaims he was so hellbent on "making it" as a businessmanIn the same post, he writes that "business is a 24 x 7 job where someone is always out there to kick your ass."Even workaholics take a break for their birthday.
In a tweet, the South African-born Tesla CEO said he would spend his 48th birthday working on "global logistics," while he described his 47th birthday as an "all night – no friends, nothing" 24-hour shift at Telsa's offices in a 2018 New York Times interview. As if that wasn't enough, he used the same interview to declare he hadn't taken a weeklong vacation in nearly 20 years.
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