Elon Musk, world's 8th best CEO, shares how he spends his free time
Being a CEO—even one of the world's best CEOs—doesn't mean you have to stop partying.
Just ask Elon Musk.
The CEO of Tesla and SpaceX came in eighth place on the 2017 Glassdoor Highest Rated CEOs list this year.
But that's not the best part. Musk gave an interview with Glassdoor and answered some questions on his job and his personal life, in which he shared his love of fun.
"When you’re not planning trips to Mars, how do you like to spend your free time?" a representative at Glassdoor asked.
"Burning Man, playing team first-person shooters with my kids, movies, hanging out with friends, occasional wild parties," Musk replied.
Ah, yes, the occasional wild party:
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As for the rest of the list of 100, 26 were tech CEOs. Musk was ranked at number 8 overall but with SpaceX, an aerospace company, not a tech company.
It's also important to note that while Jack Dorsey made the list, he was only ranked for Square, the payments company, and not for Twitter. Dorsey's CEO approval rating for Twitter is 73 percent, which is slightly better than the average CEO approval rating of 67 percent.
The ranking is based on employee feedback on Glassdoor:
1. World Wide Technology’s Jim Kavanaugh (99% approval)
5. Fast Enterprises’ Martin Rankin (99% approval)
6. NVIDIA’s Jen-Hsun Huang (99% approval)
9. HubSpot’s Brian Halligan (98% approval)
10. Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg (98% approval)
11. Paylocity’s Steve Beauchamp (98% approval)
13. Intuit’s Brad Smith (97% approval)
15. Salesforce’s Marc Benioff (97% approval)
17. Google’s Sundar Pichai (96% approval)
19. Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen (96% approval)
23. CDW’s Thomas E. Richards (96% approval)
24. SAP’s Bill McDermott (96% approval)
29. Microsoft’s Satya Nadella (95% approval)
31. Juniper Networks’ Rami Rahim (95% approval)
32. Yardi Systems’ Anant Yardi (94% approval)
35. LinkedIn’s Jeff Weiner (94% approval)
38. Square’s Jack Dorsey (94% approval)
39. Expedia’s Dara Khosrowshahi (94% approval)
48. Zillow’s Spencer Rascoff (93% approval)
51. Texas Instruments’ Rich Templeton (93% approval)
53. Apple’s Tim Cook (93% approval)
54. Kronos Incorporated’s Aron J. Ain (93% approval)
83. VMware’s Pat Gelsinger (90% approval)
87. eBay’s Devin Wenig (90% approval)
94. Gartner’s Gene Hall (90% approval)
95. SAIC’s Anthony Moraco (90% approval)
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Kerry Flynn is a business reporter for Mashable covering the tech industry. She previously reported on social media companies, mobile apps and startups for International Business Times. She has also written for The Huffington Post, Forbes and Money magazine. Kerry studied environmental science and economics at Harvard College, where she led The Harvard Crimson's metro news and design teams and played mellophone in the Band. When not listening to startup pitches, she runs half-marathons, plays with puppies and pretends to like craft beer.
