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What would Steve Jobs have told Elon Musk about his wanting to leave Tesla?

Musk has created Tesla, the world's first serious effort to build an all-electric car

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File photo of Tesla Motors Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk

Joe Nocera | Bloomberg
Friday marked the seventh anniversary of Steve Jobs’s death, which has me thinking not only about his remarkable life, but also about the man most often compared to him in terms of charisma, audacity and vision. That, of course, would be Elon Musk.

When Jobs was pushed out of Apple Inc. by then-chief executive John Sculley and the board, he was a brilliant brat, someone who led through insult as much as inspiration. Despite co-founding the company, building first the Apple II and then the Mac, he had become such a disruptive force that he had to go.

When Jobs