#48
How many hours do you work / how do you manage your time?
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First asked Nov 29, 2023, most recently Dec 10, 2025. Excerpts below are from machine transcripts with filler words (um, uh, you know) and stutters removed; … marks a cut. They are not checked word for word, so use the link to hear the exact words, or the transcript link for the raw text. Timestamps: 2 cross-checked against YouTube captions, 1 from the archive transcript only. X has no link-to-time option, so X links open at the start.
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Nov 29, 2023 · DealBook Summit · asked by Andrew Ross Sorkin
Q: I know, but do you think that's five hours a day?
If we have the screen time of, like, number of hours per week, Sometimes that's a scary number. It's probably, I don't know, it's a little over an hour a day or something like that.
Mar 17, 2025 · Verdict with Ted Cruz · asked by Ben Ferguson
Q: How many nights have you slept at your offices?
Well, I guess it started out with the first company, Zip2, which is a terrible name, but the first Internet company, we were able to rent an office which was like in a leaky attic, essentially for $500 a month. And the cheapest Apartment we could find was $800 a month, and we only had about $5,000 between our brother and I. So we're like, we're not. We'll just stay in the office. So we got some couches that …
Dec 10, 2025 · The Katie Miller Podcast · asked by Katie Miller
Q: How many hours do you sleep a night?
6. You can tell, but based on my ex posts, yes you can. People have actually mapped them so it's very clear when I'm sleeping around. I tried having less than six hours sleep, but although I'm awake more hours per day, my cognitive function is reduced. So my natural sleep. I actually Timed it with the phone. You can get a phone app time, it's like five hours, 56 minutes. That's what the phone said.
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@elonmusk · Jan 28, 2023
I work all day, then go home & play work simulator
View on X ↗@elonmusk · Jul 20, 2025
Back to working 7 days a week and sleeping in the office if my little kids are away https://t.co/77cc6sRCFZ
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