Eric Siu breaks down Elon Musk's current schedule as a "wartime CEO": overnight travel, 12-hour back-to-back meetings across Tesla departments, deep dives into the A15 chip, visits to the Colossus 2 data center, and time with family squeezed in between.
Elon Musk, obviously he's been involved with politics in the last 12 months. He got involved with Doge. He spent a lot of his money helping campaign, right? The current president campaign. And so this guy tweets this, he says, Elon is back. This is literally what it means to be a wartime CEO. So keep in mind, when he was involved with politics, that means he was very distracted from his businesses like Tesla and SpaceX, for example, right? So Elon tweets this, he says, Daddy is very much home and burning the midnight oil with Optimus Engineering on Friday night. Then I red-eye overnight to Austin, arriving at 5:00 AM. I wake up to have lunch with my kids and then spend all day Saturday afternoon in deep technical reviews for the Tesla A15 chip design. Then I fly to Colossus 2, which is their data center, on Monday to walk through the whole data center floor, review transformers and power production. Excellent progress. Depart midnight. Then up to 12 hours of back-to-back meetings across all Tesla departments, but particularly focused on AI/Autopilot, Optimus production plans, and vehicle production delivery. This is what it means to be a wartime CEO, and that's what he means by daddy is very much home.
