Telsa was a massive genius, but he was never a capitalist in the sense Edison was. Edison had better marketing chops. When people called Steve Jobs a modern Edison, they are speaking more to the fact that he had a very controlling personality, but also enough vision and marketing skills to make the public really want the products which would go on to change society (which is Edison in a nutshell) vs. being an inventor (which Steve Jobs wasn't really when compared to Edison). To use the same Apple analogy, Tesla would be more like a Steve Wozniak.
Anyways, regarding the show, it was pretty interesting to learn more about how J.P. Morgan was so instrumental in getting electricity up and running for the nation. It was kind of like a perfect storm: A brand new technology and a dude that is so rich he bailed out the United States intersecting at the right point in history.