" Musk had sometimes berated people during meetings and asked his employees to work very long hours. “I had never really run a team of any sort before,” Musk said. “I’d never been a sports captain or a captain of anything or managed a single person. You have to put yourself in a position where you say, ‘Well, how would this sound to them, knowing what they know? "

― Ashlee Vance , Elon Musk Young Readers’ Edition