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Elon Musk is no Steve Jobs

Adam Lashinsky
Oct 22, 2022
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Elon Musk is no Steve Jobs

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By Adam Lashinsky

The Washington Post

October 22, 2022 at 7:00 a.m. ED

As Elon Musk has climbed ever higher into the stratosphere of celebrity, some have likened him to Steve Jobs, the only near-contemporary whose accomplishments can compare to Musk’s commercial derring-do.

Musk is an entrepreneurial savant who runs not one but two pathbreaking companies, Tesla and SpaceX. Jobs for a time ran the animation studio Pixar while he was rejuvenating Apple, transforming it into a global powerhouse. Musk displays the narcissistic need to sound off on whatever happens to be on his mind — hence his fascination with Twitter. Jobs was a textbook example of what psychotherapist and business coach Michael Maccoby called a productive narcissist, a visionary risk taker with a profound desire to change the world who nevertheless was able to channel his efforts into concrete tasks.

The similarities between the two are many. 

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