It needs to be said: Elon Musk isn’t a visionary

Jeremy D Pavleck
The Startup
Published in
5 min readAug 7, 2019

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P.T. Barnum and his protege, Elon Musk

In the tech world, there’s a phenomenon I call the “Jobs/Wozniac Paradigm”.

It requires 2 people. A Wozniac, the technical guy who actually knows how to build the thing. And a Jobs. He’s the guy that represents the face of the company; they’re usually an asshole. He builds the cult. He makes the technology sexy and a ‘must have’.

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