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Wouldn't compare him to Steve Jobs. Musk is actually a philanthropist.

That may be unfair.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/24/laurene-powell-jobs...

Oh the confusion. Perhaps 'Nikola Tesla' would have been better.

More business sense than Tesla. Less in the way of personal technical/scientific achievements.

He's not very popular on the internet for a variety of reasons, but I think that Edison is a better comparison. Not the first person I'd compare him to, but I'd sooner compare him to Edison than Tesla.

My point was using 'Tesla' in the same sentence as Elon Musk is ambiguous and mildly confusing in this case. I was saying the poster should have used Tesla's first name as well to remove confusion.

People always compare him to Jobs but I don't think it's right. Jobs hated any sort of public failure. He pushed the envelope in some ways, but never put something out there until it was polished and consumer-ready. Jobs was great at seeing how technology could be combined in novel ways and how to boil products down to exactly what they needed, but he didn't push forward entirely new tech, and I can't imagine Jobs publicly showing a video of his flagship product exploding into a fiery mess.

Yep! Just a little less crazy and a lot less of an asshole.