Tesla isn't Apple, Elon Musk isn't Steve Jobs, and its cars aren't the next iPhone

Jan 5 2023 by Business Insider

 

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Analysts and industry observers have compared Tesla and CEO Elon Musk to Apple and Steve Jobs. But Tesla and Apple's similarities are surface level. The key differences between the two companies and leaders are why the comparisons should end.

On paper, Apple and Tesla have a lot in common.

Apple didn't invent the smartphone, and Tesla didn't invent the electric car, but each has followed their chief executives' idiosyncratic...

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