Comparing Steve Jobs and Walt Disney

Quite a few similarities between the two (though Walt would never be seen wearing jeans and a turtleneck). From Time.com:

The entrepreneur who Jobs resembles most is another self-made Californian whose business stood where Jobs has often said Apple's does: at the intersection of technology and the liberal arts. That man was Walt Disney, and he was just as irritable, obsessed and visionary as Jobs. Like Jobs, he built a team of people who had skills he didn't, and then goaded them into creating things -- in Disney's case, ones such as Snow White and Disneyland -- which they would never have come up with on their own.

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The post-Walt history of the Disney company is a sobering example of what can go wrong when an organization's defining leader no longer calls the shots. For years after his death in 1966, it floundered, subsisting on his leftover projects and rehashed ideas. It kept asking itself "What would Walt do?" The answers usually involved more family movies and additional theme parks. But if Walt Disney had been running the joint, chances are that he'd have pursued goals that you'd never come up with simply by trying to channel Walt Disney.

Jobs, of course, did complete the circle when he sold Pixar to the Mouse House and joined the Disney board.