George Blankenship’s resume is impressive. He’s worked with business legends Steve Jobs and Elon Musk—on top of 20 years at clothing retailer GAP Inc. Blankenship, whose current job is “director of smiles for the Blankenship family”—his third attempt at retirement—is an admirer of banks because they take care of people’s money. But he has a warning.
Steve Jobs lured Blankenship out of his first retirement because Jobs wanted to sell Apple products in the way that Banana Republic (a GAP brand) sold fashion—not like everybody else sold computers.
