When asked how much Musk works per week, Zilis laughed.

She said he goes into “maniac mode” and had trouble thinking of a more quantifiable amount of hours. She added, as an answer to a follow-up question, that their time spent together was a brief break from “the insanity … that is his entire work life.”

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When asked how much Musk works per week, Zilis laughed.

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