A former colleague revealed that Musk had lost his temper because no one was working overtime at 9 p.m.

According to news in the morning of October 14, Beijing time, a former colleague of Tesla CEO Elon Musk (Elon Musk) said in a new documentary that at Zip2, the first company Musk founded, when employees did not work overtime after 9 p.m., he was very angry.

Jim Ambras, a former vice president of Zip2, said Mr Musk would visit the office at night to "see who was sitting at his desk, but actually no one would do it. It was already 9pm". "his face turned red and he was very angry that the whole company didn't work overtime at 9pm."

Zip2 provides online city guide software for newspapers, which was founded in 1995 by Musk and his brother Kimbal Musk as Global connected Information Networks. Four years later, the company was acquired by Compaq to enhance its AltaVista search engine, while Musk and Kimbal Musk earned $2200 and $15 million, respectively.

Brandon Sparks (Branden Spikes), a systems engineer at Zip2, calls Musk an "unusual person" who works late and sleeps at his desk. He also called Musk "omniscient" and he considered himself "almost omniscient".

Musk's mother, Meyer, also appeared in the documentary. She said that when Musk was a child, it was difficult to wake him up in the morning because he would read all night. So she had to dress Musk while he was half asleep.

Musk currently runs Tesla and SpaceX, as well as two smaller startups, Neuralink and The Boring Company. In 2019, Musk was named the most charismatic leader in the technology industry. But he said in a podcast in December 2021, "you shouldn't be a leader in order to be a leader. You want leaders who don't want to be leaders themselves."