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Elon Musk Is Bold and Daring. But Should You Be Like Him? Two business experts sound off on why Musk is (and isn't!) an entrepreneur to emulate.

By Entrepreneur Staff

This story appears in the November 2018 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe »

Art Streiber

Tesla is a well-publicized mess -- behind on production, abandoned by its executives and embroiled in an SEC investigation. Musk, too, often appears to be a mess -- increasingly erratic on Twitter, lurching from one PR crisis to the next. But in 2018, his company SpaceX launched and landed a giant rocket (and then booked the first passenger for a trip around the moon), his hyperloop technology scored a contract with the city of Chicago and his battery-making Gigafactory hit new strides. So is he a model to follow? Our experts square off.

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