Steve Jobs and Elon Musk: Two mental extremes of Silicon Valley

The two adventurous geniuses walk on opposite paths, but both Elon Musk and Steve Jobs both succeed in redefining an entire traditional industry.

Last week, SpaceX fulfilled its historic mission by becoming the first commercial mission to send humans into space and mark the first human space flight since the end of the space shuttle era in 2011 — the year Steve Jobs died.

It had made many people can not help but recall the late CEO of Apple, about the critical moment when the first iPhone was released in 2007, the device was later referred to by the media as “God’s phone.” SpaceX did not create “the rocket of God,” but it seemed to open the same perspective to the space industry.

Silicon Valley is a place that always needs a spiritual representative. Steve Jobs set fire to that fire in this tech valley over 40 years ago. Then there are people like Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg … taking over this torch. And now, with successes with Tesla or the SpaceX rocket, Elon Musk is likened to the Steve Jobs of the 21st century. Unlike Jobs using the iPhone to “light the world,” Musk launched the rocket to the sky.

But in fact, these individuals can be divided into two groups of people. One group includes Steve Jobs and Elon Musk. The other is the boss of Microsoft, Google or Facebook.