For Elon Musk, chaos may be more than a management style: His ex-wife says it\u2019s where he feels comfortable.<\/p>\n
Justine Musk described the billionaire\u2019s appetite for intensity in a teaser posted Tuesday for Kara Swisher\u2019s interview with her and filmmaker Alex Gibney ahead of the release of Gibney\u2019s documentary \u201cMUSK.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI once described him as somebody who can, like, jump off the edge of a cliff and, you know, invent a parachute on the way down,\u201d Justine Musk told Swisher about her ex-husband, \u201cLike, I think he thrives on chaos.\u201d<\/p>\n
Justine Musk, an author and the mother of Vivian Jenna Wilson<\/a>, said the Tesla CEO’s language often casts challenges as existential emergencies, with an element of performance.<\/p>\n \u201cEverything is life and death,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd I think he really lives like that. He really lives with that pitch of intensity.\u201d<\/p>\n That description echoes inside Elon Musk’s companies.<\/p>\n At xAI, current and former employees told Business Insider that\u00a0Musk\u2019s growing involvement<\/a>\u00a0led to abrupt shifts in priorities, intensive \u201cwar rooms,\u201d and a group chat of more than 300 engineers. Researchers would interrupt ongoing work to address concerns he flagged.<\/p>\n \u201cBecause the company is so small, everything is a fire drill,\u201d one former worker previously told Business Insider.<\/p>\n