Contemporary tech titans seem to be of the same ilk: single-minded, determined, obsessive.
“Intense” with a “passion for perfection” and a “ferocious drive” is how biographer Walter Isaacson characterizes the late Steve Jobs. “Absurd in her obsession with detail,” reports Nicholas Carlson in Business Insider about Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer. “Obsessed with efficiency” and possessing “tunnel vision” notes The New Yorker contributor Ken Auletta in describing Google co-founder Sergey Brin. And Elon Musk, the head of Tesla Motors and Space-X, puts in up to 100-hour weeks to get everything just right.
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