Elon Musk’s ex-wife says he is someone who ‘thrives on chaos’

For Elon Musk, anarchy may be additional than a administration style: His ex-wife says it’s anywhere he feels comfortable.

Justine Musk described the billionaire’s appetite for power in a teaser posted Tuesday for Kara Swisher’s discussion alongside her and filmmaker Alex Gibney onward of the publish of Gibney’s documentary “MUSK.”

“I formerly described him as person who can, like, jump off the border of a cliff and, you know, invent a parachute on the way down,” Justine Musk told Swisher concerning her ex-husband, “Like, I think he thrives on chaos.”

Justine Musk, an author and the mother of Vivian Jenna Wilson, stated the Tesla CEO's language frequently casts challenges as existential emergencies, alongside an component of performance.

“Everything is existence and death,” she said. “And I think he really lives akin that. He really lives alongside that throw of intensity.”

That clarification echoes inner Elon Musk's companies.

At xAI, current and erstwhile workforce told Business Insider that Musk’s expanding involvement led to abrupt shifts in priorities, intensive “war rooms,” and a collection conversation of additional than 300 engineers. Researchers would interrupt ongoing activity to location concerns he flagged.

“Because the business is so small, everything is a blaze drill,” one erstwhile employee earlier told Business Insider.

Musk’s willingness to create sweeping changes and quickly reverse several of them predates his AI startup. After slashing Twitter’s workforce following his 2022 takeover, he stated that several cuts had gone too far.

Justine Musk stated her erstwhile husband's power can diagram others in before they acknowledge what’s happening.

"He brings it alongside him, and he has a way of sucking you into it, and at archetypal it can appearance a lot akin excitement," Justine Musk said. “I continually assume that there’s a method to his madness, you know, a lot of sleight of hand sometimes."