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Professor Aswath Damodaran gave his thoughts on this topic at Nordic Business Forum. (IIRC disclaimer here) He said that he sees some parallels to Steve Jobs, w
by jpalomaki 8y ago
Professor Aswath Damodaran gave his thoughts on this topic at Nordic Business Forum. (IIRC disclaimer here) He said that he sees some parallels to Steve Jobs, who once almost destroyed Apple and then later saved it - the difference being that on the second time he had Tim Cook. If Musk can find (or if he already has - I have no idea of Tesla management) his own "Tim Cook", then the future of Tesla looks much brighter.
For me this makes sense and I've seen it also elsewhere. The person with lots of energy and ideas may not be the best person to execute things in a corporate context.
- everdev 8y agoAs humans, we tend to see patterns wether they're there or not. Jobs and Musk are different people running different types of companies in different eras. There are probably only a small number of people who really understand how Jobs made or Musk makes business critical decisions day in and day out and I'd wager on the opposite that they probably do things fairly differently even if in the outside we see similarities (passion, vision, etc.)
- Faark 8y agoEh. Yes, we can only use known information and especially with little info, the patterns we perceive won't always be perfect. But applying those labels seems to have enormous value anyway. Reddit recently likes to compare Musk to Trump. And while i disagree with that comparison on most aspects, it did help me realize their social media usage patterns are a lot more similar than I'd like. Of cause this particular comparison got a lot harder to do, now, since the US seems to hold a CEO & Chairman to higher standards...
- ajslater 8y agoHe's got Gwynne Shotwell running SpaceX he needs a Gwynne of Tesla.