After mass outages at X over the Memorial Day weekend and a fire at a data center, the app's owner, Elon Musk, 53, is taking matters into his own hands — with a self-imposed return-to-office mandate.
In a recent X post, the multi-CEO responded to the outage news by saying that he is going back to his "hardcore" roots at X, xAI, and Tesla.
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"Back to spending 24/7 at work and sleeping in conference/server/factory rooms," Musk wrote. "I must be super focused on X/xAI and Tesla."
"We have critical technologies rolling out," he continued. "As evidenced by the X uptime issues this week, major operational improvements need to be made. The failover redundancy should have worked, but did not."
Musk is known for working around the clock and sleeping at the office (and encourages others to do so, too). In a 2022 leaked memo, Musk told employees to have an "extremely hardcore" work ethic or leave the company. One employee even went viral for sleeping under her desk — she now works at Meta.
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Last week at Bloomberg's Qatar Economic Forum, Musk said that he is committed to staying at Tesla as CEO now that he is scaling back his time at DOGE. When asked if he will still be leading Tesla in five years, he said: "Yes, no doubt about that at all."
CNBC reported at the time that Musk wants to keep his position as Tesla's CEO to maintain "sufficient voting control" over the company to avoid activist investors.
"It's not a money thing," Musk said. "It's a reasonable control thing over the future of the company."
Tesla stock has been rebounding on the news.
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