Warren V. “Pete” Musser, the Safeguard Scientifics founder who saw his personal worth balloon up to a billion dollars and then plummet after the dot-com bust, is worried about SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.

“I think he’s a little too ambitious,” the mythic 90-year-old investor quipped about the Silicon Valley superfounder during an exclusive interview with Technical.ly at a massive roundtable in his Radnor office.

Ambition — a double-edged word that implies both hard work and unbridled thirst for more — is a trait that is not lacking in the ballad of Pete Musser, a man touted by both locals and out-of-towners as a captain of industry way before entrepreneurship was the cool thing to do.

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