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When people say inventor, they think Nicola Tesla or the Wright Brothers. Elon musk is more analogous to Stebe Jobs, primarily a businessman with some engineer

When people say inventor, they think Nicola Tesla or the Wright Brothers. Elon musk is more analogous to Stebe Jobs, primarily a businessman with some engineering backgrund. Then there is the whole controversy of tesla being funded by two guys, him being an investor and forcing them out of the company.

olliej 5y ago
I would say closer to Thomas Edison - at least Jobs didn't go out stealing other peoples work.
- verve_rat 5y ago
  Didn't he steal the GUI from Xerox?
  - astrange 5y ago
    Xerox licensed it to them. They had no other path to market since nothing at PARC had to do with selling printer paper or whatever it is they did in the 70s.