https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/aug/19/elon-musk-tesla-excruciating-year > The Tesla founder acknowledged that the past year has been ‘most difficult and painful’ time in his career – but what brought him there? > It’s been a horrible year for Elon Musk. One even he acknowledges couldn’t have been much worse. “This past year has been the most difficult and painful year of my career,” the billionaire entrepreneur said in an New York Times interview published on Friday. “It was excruciating.”