Silicon Valley suggests the auto industry needs Steve Jobs

It seems like no one is a fan of the auto industry getting taxpayers money - even if it is just a loan that they plan on paying back. Nonetheless, if the government is going to help out the American auto industry, Spark Capital’s (no not Tony Starks company) Todd Dagres says that new leadership in Detroit is necessary.

In a letter to the President, Dagres says that the auto industry needs a Steve Jobs type CEO to save it. In fact, Dagres says that the Apple CEO himself should jump in on the action and take over, seeing as his health allows him to do so and if he’s interested in turning around a crumbling industry.

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222max - 2/27/2009 11:28:48 AM

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As much as I admire Jobs this suggestion is wack. Detroit's problem right now is not so much one of product development... they are starting to bring the product. It's the fat, wasteful, lumbering corporate structure that is sinking the American Auto industry. It's a house which needs to be stripped down and rebuilt form the ground-up.

travobravo - 2/27/2009 4:11:23 PM

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Good management and marketing would make a world of difference. It's not a coincidence that when Steve left Apple it started tanking and when he came back they climbed to the top. Having said that the automotive industry decided to antiquate itself long ago. People are tired of investing in a product that leads to the death of there brothers and sisters. Hopefully this is a wake up call, and revolution in individual transportation devises. The combustion engine is the 8 track of the automobile industry, it nice for nostalgia but not very efficient for anything else. Google and watch the movie “who killed the electric car”.

Threepoint1415926 - 3/1/2009 8:25:37 PM

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Good quality items can be made anywhere with the right quality control. It's a fallacious argument that because something is not built in America, it must be poorly built. Perhaps you havent looked at the quality of construction in components of anything Apple or any number of overseas built products with strict QC.