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William D. Cohan on Power, Ego, and the Imperial CEO

The Daily Stoic

CHAPTER

Is It Just the Tide Goes Out?

I mean, look at Tim Cook, right? I mean, Tim Cook, who basically nobody really knows. And he didn't create Tesla. He bought, he infused Tesla with capital at a time when the company was sort of on its knees and money that he had made from PayPal. Now you see it from another angle and you realize it was never what you thought it was. It's part of this problem we have in this country of lionizing these people so that they think that their shit doesn't stink. We saw it with Donald Trump too. Why would Americans elect this guy who's got no basis for anything? You don't have to be a narcissistic, egotistical jerk

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