Ex-Employee on Elon Musk: It’s not what it looks like to the public… He knew a little about missiles before SpaceX

A former executive of the airline, “SpaceX”, revealed the other face of billionaire, Elon Musk, stressing that “the public has a different perception about him.”

“Employees see Elon Musk differently at work, and I think the general public has a different perception,” Hans Koenigsmann, who worked at SpaceX for 19 years, told Business Insider.
He added, “He jokes in meetings as well, but it’s clear that these are just jokes, and I think he’s confusing the audience whether he’s really joking or not.”

And he added: “In many cases, I feel that people do not understand Elon Musk.”

On the character of Elon Musk at work, Hans Koenigsmann explained that Musk “expects a lot of effort” from his employees, and offers a “unique perspective” in situations that involve physics.

Koenigsmann also revealed that Elon Musk knew little about rockets before creating SpaceX, but he quickly learned a lot over time.

In the workplace, Koenigsmann said Musk “expects a lot” from his employees and offers a “unique perspective” on situations involving physics. Koenigsmann added that the billionaire, who knew little about rockets before SpaceX, quickly learned a lot over time.

Elon Musk is, at the moment of this writing, the richest man in the world, with a fortune estimated at $300 billion, according to the billionaires index of the American agency “Bloomberg”.

And about people’s view of Elon Musk as a billionaire, Hans Koenigsmann stressed that “people forget that if you only have shares in the stock exchange, then this is not money from a monetary perspective.”

It is noteworthy that this week, Elon Musk put a public vote on his Twitter account on whether or not to sell 10 percent of his Tesla shares for electric cars.