The thing is, he’s never been paid to stay quiet and focus on the money. Musk’s value add is as the celebrity CEO; the Jobsian ideal taken to its natural concl

The thing is, he’s never been paid to stay quiet and focus on the money. Musk’s value add is as the celebrity CEO; the Jobsian ideal taken to its natural conclusion. He’s supposed to be this forward-looking visionary and having him at the helm of your company is supposed to make it forward-looking by proxy. This is all well and good until the celebrity CEO fries his brain with Special K and builds a bubble of yes-men around him. Then it becomes a massive liability.