Originally Posted by
Expat
Originally Posted by
snegledmaca
Don't know if this is true or if it's a rumor, but I heard he stole inventions from Tesla.
As far as I know, he didn't really steal anything from Tesla as Tesla was working for Edison for some time, so Edison got the use of the inventions.
Tesla did see Edison as a very non-imaginative person, who relied on sheer number of experiments to accomplish anything -- whether Edison himself actually ran the experiments is of lesser importance.
Interestingly, both ESj and ENp would value
and
. Tesla may have valued
more. In that case, both ILE and LSE may seem to him inefficient and not imaginative in the
way.
If Edison was LSE, he must have been a little atypical, maybe an
subtype of LSE....because he was so motivated to keep moving to the next invention. Wouldn't LSEs be more typically motivated to build up a successful business in a more convergent way? I mean, once Edison had a few successful inventions, he could have focused on capitalizing on them and building up the standard sort of corporation which gets bigger and bigger based on refining one single business.
Instead, it seems he was too bored to just focus on one thing; he had to always move on. So he built his business around inventions. I'm not saying he couldn't be LSE....just that it seems he was always motivated to branch outward, to look for the next thing, rather than to be content building an empire around one successful thing.