Elon Musk = Steve Jobs On Steroids

(Tesla Roadster image via bozs13)

Steve Jobs maybe a control freak when it comes to micromanaging, but he looks pale in comparison with Elon Musk. Who is Elon Musk? Elon Musk is a Silicon Valley superstar: co-founder of Paypal and SpaceX; chairman of Tesla Motors and SolarCity. Musk has a similar path with Steve Jobs. They both like to be in full control. They've both been fired by their boards. They both came back stronger and more powerful. They are both uber-passionate entrepreneurs who are changing the world. But Musk is taking the more difficult and seemingly impossible problems: space exploration, "green" cars, solar power, and then some. No wonder Inc Magazine chose Elon Musk as Entrepreneur of the Year:

"Yet the kingmakers of innovation--the academics, the investors, the bloggers--tend not to talk about Musk. They dwell on idea people like Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, the 23-year-old wunderkind whose high-concept notions about social networks have made him the hottest thing in business. Or they talk about prognosticators, people like MIT's Nicholas Negroponte, whose One Laptop per Child program has captured the imaginations of moguls, wonks, and Davos attendees everywhere. Elon Musk isn't a software geek or a self-styled visionary. He's not particularly young or brash or handsome, and he can come off as kind of a jerk. He isn't hawking new technology, and he's quite shy. Yet he just might change the world."

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I'm rooting for Musk to change the world of business, space exploration, alternative energy, and transportation. I also dream of having an affordable Tesla Roadster whilie living in a Solar-powered city and a chance to travel to outer space.