Yes, I mostly don't consider advice based on Steve Jobs or the success of Apple to be meaningful to anyone, unless it is highly filtered and supported by other

Yes, I mostly don't consider advice based on Steve Jobs or the success of Apple to be meaningful to anyone, unless it is highly filtered and supported by other case studies (the value of design, sure, and the value of lock in like the App Store, both of which are supported by other examples). Things like "micromanage every detail of your product and launch" are borderline, as they can hurt many people as well as help other people. Negative traits like blowing up at employees or customers are absolutely not things to emulate. Elon Musk is another interesting case. Aside from the very high level "do the impossible", the big lesson of SpaceX seems to be "do everything in house." This is totally counter to the general trend and most advice in startups, at least in software. It is mostly valid in that the aerospace industry was incredibly pathologically fucked up, whereas the software industry is highly competitive and efficient. I'm not sure what the lessons of Tesla and Solar City are; the lesson of PayPal seems to be "merge with and get pushed out by Peter Thiel; profit", which is nice work if you can get it.