Elon Musk explains why he slept on the Tesla factory floor for 3 years

Is this you or is this. So you do all these different things here?

Oh, that's literally me. So do you have someone else who did this? I was in the. I was living in the factory in Fremont and the one in Nevada for three years straight. That was my primary residence. Not kidding. Literally.

Did you keep the couch?

I actually slept in a couch at one point in a tent on the roof. And then for a while there, I was just sleeping under my desk, which is out in the open in the factory for an important reason. And it was damn uncomfortable sleeping on that floor. And always when I woke up, I'd smell like metal dust.

We went to visit, and they bought him a new couch.

Yeah, but actually I stopped using the couch because there's a little conference room and a couch there. I stopped using the couch, and I just slept on the floor under my desk. So during shift change, the entire team could see me. And this is important because, like, you know, the team, like, if they think, like, the sort of their leader is off somewhere having a good time, you know, drinking Mai Tais on a tropical island, which I could definitely have been doing and would much have preferred to do, I'm not actually a masochist, I think. But the thing is that since the team could see me sleeping on the floor during shift change, just with nothing, they knew I was there, and that made a huge difference. And then they gave it their all.

So the focus is on always lowering cost and providing leadership.