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What Steve Jobs Might Say to Elon Musk
You've got to grow up sometime.
Two brilliant brats.
Illustration: Jessica Karl; Photographers: Justin Sullivan, Joshua Lott/Getty Images
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Friday marked the seventh anniversary of Steve Jobs’s death, which has me thinking not only about his remarkable life, but also about the man most often compared to him in terms of charisma, audacity and vision. That, of course, would be Elon Musk.
When Jobs was pushed out of Apple Inc. by then-chief executive John Sculley and the board, he was a brilliant brat, someone who led through insult as much as inspiration. Despite co-founding the company, building first the Apple II and then the Mac, he had become such a disruptive force that he had to go.