your favorite CEOs or chairmen ever?

[KMFJD]

Helped give us the Sarbanes–Oxley Act 🙂

 

[Anarchist420]

looked over only the 1st page and havent heard of or remember most...

Richard Branson. The story of how he started Virgin Airlines is pretty epic. It's the best "just get shit done" story I've heard.

he is pretty cool... i forgot about him. he is just not a typical CEO and for that i like him.

@soundmanred: thank you🙂 chairmen of the board was pretty damn awesome.
@the man from the bay area: i agree with you🙂

Dana White, he runs a billion dollar company yet has no problem taking time out his day to go on Twitter and get into huge wars cussing out people who say negative shit about him or the UFC in general. I'd love to see him and Balmer get into a brawl. He's also the only CEO I can think of that drops the F bomb in every interview. White would kick Zuckerberg's wimpy ass and call him a bitch afterwards.

good post, but people like that scare me. i scare myself. perhaps you would like to see me and Ballmer get into a fight.

Jerry Sanders former AMD CEO ranks up there for me. He was CEO when my mom was still working at AMD years ago. He was a showman and loved throwing awesome parties. The best was the anniversary party when he had Rod Stewart perform.

he was pretty damn nice and he is pretty kind looking even for a non-CEO.

 

[JackBurton]

finger-controlled touch screen phones existed prior to Apple prototyping.

nice fantasy, though. remember--technology, inventions, progress--none of this exists in a vacuum. Steve Jobs was a hell of a CEO, but everyone knows he would be nothing without Xerox.

no invention or discovery is really the result of a single human with some epiphany. There is always someone else, or many other people in the same field, at the same time, working to solve the same problems that would invariably arrive at the same solution.

Please stop. This is the standard BS anti-Apple troll garbage. The mobile phone trend was nowhere close to the direction Apple took it with the iPhone, so please quit trying to rewrite history. Steve did the same for digital music, portal music players, laptops and tablets. What, the manufactures failed time and time again trying to make the tablet viable, only to finally give up, but they could of made it successful eventually, right? lol The same manufactures that thought Apple was stupid for releasing a tablet when everyone else failed? Those guys were the ones that were going to eventually crack the tablet code? lol

If Jobs did it once, I'd say it was luck. However, when you do it time after time and reshape the industry, you are a special guy. He's so special, that Apple will never be the same without him (in a bad way).

 

[JackBurton]

Anyone suggesting Jobs needs a swift kick in the teeth for such stupidity.

Elon Musk. Though, John Legere is endearing him self to me.

Anyone denying Jobs influence on the entire tech industry needs to be slapped in the face for showing their stupidity.

 

[Northern Lawn]

Dana White, he runs a billion dollar company yet has no problem taking time out his day to go on Twitter and get into huge wars cussing out people who say negative shit about him or the UFC in general. I'd love to see him and Balmer get into a brawl. He's also the only CEO I can think of that drops the F bomb in every interview.

White would kick Zuckerberg's wimpy ass and call him a bitch afterwards.

I agree. Dana White is my favourite by far.

I was going to say that south korean guy that invented flappy birds. He had a hit, started making 50 grand a week and got social anxiety and pulled his game from the market.

 

[Turbonium]

Bill Gates

Extremely successful, and a good guy.

Also, this.

What a gangster.

 

[gorcorps]

Mark Zuckerberg

He was good in Zombieland

 

[slugg]

Bill Gates. My all time favorite.

 

[z1ggy]

someone else would have taped a shiny screen to a hard drive and made billions off of the same preexisting tech?

I don't think it's that simple.

Even if he got his ideas from inspirations from other people or companies, Apple was really the pioneer in the mobile music/media market. I went from running around my block with a CD player (walkman I think) to a few years later having an iPod. I went from burning CD's with 10-15 songs on them, music skipping everytime I jumped or moved in a non-smooth manner, to putting hundreds of songs on a MUCH more compact platform that never skipped and a screen with scroll bar.

 

[raasco]

Alan Mulally. He was passed over at Boeing, jumped ship to Ford and completely turned it around. The fact that Ford never took bailout money is why my next new vehicle purchase will be with them.