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064 | SIMPLY INFLUENTIAL The Times via The Interview People It’s hard to meet people” By Stephen Armstrong He’s the billionaire owner of Tesla who has just launched a rocket into space — but is the genius entrepreneur lonely? Elon Musk was once at a photoshoot for Rolling Stone magazine and a stylist asked him to wear a black turtleneck. He refused, forcefully. “If I was dying and I had a turtleneck on,” he said, “with my last dying breath I would take the turtleneck off and try to throw it as far away from my body as possible.” The black turtleneck, of course, was the trademark garb of the eccentric Apple founder Steve Jobs — and there are three men who Elon Musk hates being compared to: Jobs, the fictional billionaire turned Iron Man superhero Tony Stark and Errol Musk, Elon’s estranged father. He clearly has a complicated relationship with men. SIMPLY INFLUENTIAL | 065 “ Elon Musk: