Elon Musk Needs His Own Tim Cook to Take Over Tesla’s Operations

Steve Jobs gets a lot of credit -- deservedly so -- for making some of the most iconic tech products of the last 40 years and turning Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) into the most valuable public company in the world. His ability to see how Apple could make technology accessible and his obsession in controlling the entire technology ecosystem is uniquely Jobs. But it shouldn't be forgotten that it was really Tim Cook who made the vision a reality.

Jobs' story has a lot of parallels with Elon Musk, who has made Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) into the visionary company upending transportation and energy. He's given electric vehicles a viability they've never had and is now spreading disruption into semi trucks, solar energy, and energy storage. What Musk lacks today is his own Tim Cook, someone to take that vision from Musk's head to the production line. That could be a fatal flaw in disrupting the world.

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