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>He's a fantastic operations guy, but lacks a founder's vision, drive and risk-taking mentality. If there's one thing I've learned in my corporate serfdom is t
by drzaiusapelord 10y ago
>He's a fantastic operations guy, but lacks a founder's vision, drive and risk-taking mentality.
If there's one thing I've learned in my corporate serfdom is that primadonnas can't handle other primadonnas. Do you think Steve Jobs would be able to work with another Steve Jobs? Jobs picked Cook because Cook wasn't Jobs, so Jobs was able to tolerate him. The problem is a company like Apple probably needs a Jobs-like character.
I see this all the time in the workplace. The difficult higher-ups always hire fairly milquetoast personalities they can easily control but when they leave, we now have a department of largely unmotivated 'yes men,' unable to do anything but take orders.
- cstross 10y ago> The problem is a company like Apple probably needs a Jobs-like character. I have been, idly, placing bets with myself on an Apple buy-out of Tesla, shades of Apple's buy-out of NeXT -- not merely to get a lead on the auto industry, but to get a new visionary leader on board in the shape of Musk. (But I don't think Musk wants to lead a company he didn't build for himself: he doesn't want to just eat his cake, he wants to bake it from scratch.)
- drzaiusapelord 10y agoI suspect Musk is too busy with sexy technology like rockets and electric and self-driving cars to be bothered with agonizing over what Walmart moms think is a good phone. Apple isn't this hot sexy thing anymore, its the standard bearer of the mobile revolution which has become a fairly boring part of everyone's lives. I can't imagine a personality like Musk doing that job. It would seem like a caretaker job I imagine.
- rmc 10y agoCouldn't you have said that Apple pre-Jobs, or pre-iPhone?
- kwikiel 10y agoFIY Musk is not founder of tesla.