Elon Musk typically sleeps on a sofa at Twitter HQ and admits he ‘shouldn’t tweet after 3 a.m.’

There’s the just about fixed upheaval at Twitter the place, after he purchased the social media platform final yr for $44 billion, he rolled out a raft of cuts from employees to places of work to knowledge facilities.

That doesn’t bear in mind his different day job working Tesla—which comes with its justifiable share of challenges, together with court docket instances. After which, in fact, there’s SpaceX, the spacecraft producer and satellite tv for pc firm he based in 2002, which now companions with NASA.

So it’s no shock he’s strung out slightly greater than most individuals.

In an impromptu interview with British broadcaster the BBC—which was shared on Twitter Areas and reportedly had 3.3 million listeners at one point—the member of the so-called PayPal Mafia revealed he had a quantity or regrets in regards to the Twitter takeover.

Musk, the second-richest man on the planet, has been vocal in regards to the pressure working three companies has placed on him. In February, he admitted he was “apprehensive” about his psychological well-being, and a seek for a brand new CEO at Twitter has been hampered by discovering somebody “silly” sufficient to tackle the advanced function.

In his sit-down with the BBC’s James Clayton, Musk revealed his lengthy days—not all of that are spent at Twitter—steadily drive him to sleep within the social media large’s San Francisco headquarters.

He revealed: “I generally sleep within the workplace,” including that he has a spot on a sofa in a library on the constructing’s seventh ground “that no person goes to.”

Musk isn’t any stranger to sofa-surfing. Earlier this week, a fan on Twitter posted a photograph of an empty-looking room with a mattress on the ground, claiming it was the bed room of Musk.

The person price $189.1 billion, based on Forbes, responded that the speculation isn’t “completely fallacious,” including: “Slept on a pal’s sofa final weekend.”

3 a.m. rule

Not less than when he’s asleep he’s not getting himself into hassle, with Musk telling the BBC that maybe he shouldn’t publish on Twitter after 3 a.m.

Such antics on-line have gotten him into sizzling water with Tesla buyers, after the boss was taken to court docket over posts that boosted after which sank the inventory value of the EV producer.

“Have I shot myself within the foot with tweets a number of instances? Sure. I would like bulletproof footwear at this level,” Musk stated. “I feel I mustn’t tweet after 3 a.m—perhaps 2 a.m.”

“Good” Twitter guidelines for customers, he agreed, embody not tweeting when offended or having had a drink.

“Should you’re going to tweet one thing that perhaps is controversial, put it aside as a draft and have a look at it the subsequent day should you nonetheless need to tweet it,” he added. “That has been an excellent rule of thumb.

“There’s a bunch of issues in my drafts that I’m glad I didn’t ship.”

Twitter’s toll

Within the BBC interview, Musk speaks candidly about how “painful” the method of taking up Twitter and remodeling it has been, including he “didn’t have a coronary heart of stone.”

Such vulnerability isn’t exceptional from the CEO, who stated in February the strain he was underneath is a “ache he wouldn’t want on anybody.”

Concern for Musk has been ramping up since November, when it was revealed his schedule consisted of waking up, working nonstop, then sleeping, seven days every week. This implies his typical workweek of between 70 and 80 hours now sits at round 120—prompting a fan to tweet, “Please be protected and take care.”

Musk responded: “I’m apprehensive about me, too.”

Then in January the CEO apologized throughout a trial for “squirming round” on the witness stand, ascribing it to “fairly extreme again ache” and problem sleeping the evening earlier than. 

In addition to unhealthy sleep on workplace sofas, Musk has additionally admitted his food regimen isn’t the most effective, as he eats a doughnut for breakfast every single day.

Peter Diamandis, one of many founding companions of well being care enterprise Fountain Life, tweeted earlier this week that “sugar is poison.” 

Musk responded: “I eat a donut each morning. Nonetheless alive.”