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re: Greatest Modern CEO
Posted on 7/29/18 at 10:15 am to Globetrotter747
Posted on 7/29/18 at 10:15 am to Globetrotter747
Jack Welsh
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Posted on 7/29/18 at 4:40 pm to LSU82BILL
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If you haven’t read his biography (by Walter Isaacson) I highly recommend it. He was a bit of a prick and basically ripped off the GUI technology from Xerox but Jobs vision, commitment to quality and ability to push extremely talented engineers far beyond their creative abilities was unprecedented.
Just read it.
Posted on 8/1/18 at 11:35 am to 3deadtrolls
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Lee Iacocca.
Saved Chyrsler back in the 80s.
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Sergio Marchionne.
Saved Chrysler AND Fiat back in the 00s.
These guys always get the credit for saving companies but the reality is that the Federal Reserve system was set up more than a century ago to protect the large banks that are always lending these corprations massive amounts of money. The banks keep rolling over their loans until a full-fledged bailout is required, then they go to Congress to get the federal government to fully guarantee the loans based on the threat of a nationwide financial disaster it was cause. Nelson Aldrich, JP Morgan and John Rockefeller did more 70 years earlier to save Chrysler than Iacocca did.
Posted on 8/1/18 at 11:39 am to LSU82BILL
5 frickin pages ON THE OT and not one mention of Vince McMahon???
Posted on 8/1/18 at 11:42 am to LSU82BILL
Feras Antoon CEO of mindgeek/pornhub
Posted on 8/1/18 at 11:44 am to azcatiger
Elon
Sells pipe dreams and becomes a billionaire by convincing the government to fund them without producing anything of real value
Sells pipe dreams and becomes a billionaire by convincing the government to fund them without producing anything of real value
Posted on 8/1/18 at 11:57 am to Globetrotter747
Larry Ellison. Even Bezos’ servers run on Oracle databases. Amazon’s cloud service, which is their highest margin, is running on Oracle. Everything in modern life is, pretty much. They’re the bedrock of the whole system. They’ve had multiple serious challengers but no one has been able to unseat them because switching databases is too hard, expensive, and time consuming. Ellison is essentially THE landlord of the intenet. Oracle is the biggest, baddest company that your average Jack/Jill has never heard of.
Posted on 8/1/18 at 11:59 am to RedMustang
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basically ripped off the GUI technology from Xerox
Everyone did. People act like Jobs was unique in that, but he wasn’t. Gates did too. They were the red headed stepchild of Xerox, they knew Xerox would never use their stuff, so they just invited people in to see it, knowing it would get ripped off.
Posted on 8/1/18 at 12:05 pm to Cooter Davenport
5 pages and not a single mention of an O&G CEO. incredible 
Posted on 8/1/18 at 12:11 pm to Globetrotter747
Gates
This post was edited on 8/1/18 at 12:12 pm
Posted on 8/1/18 at 12:12 pm to Klark Kent
Has there been an O&G CEO in modern times who was anything but a maintainer?
The CEO of Saudi Aramco, the WORLD’S largest company is an Aggie. But nobody in the public even knows who the guy is.
I mean if we are talking all-time, then hell yeah, John D. Rockefeller. But in modern times, those guys are just faceless, grey, corporate clones.
The CEO of Saudi Aramco, the WORLD’S largest company is an Aggie. But nobody in the public even knows who the guy is.
I mean if we are talking all-time, then hell yeah, John D. Rockefeller. But in modern times, those guys are just faceless, grey, corporate clones.
Posted on 8/1/18 at 12:12 pm to Anfield Road
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Andrew Carnegie
Modern???
Posted on 8/1/18 at 12:12 pm to Globetrotter747
Lou Gertsner
Posted on 8/1/18 at 12:13 pm to Globetrotter747
Jeff Bezos, hands down. He changed retail forever. The man is worth $150 billion. He even grew his parents' $245,000 initial investment in his enterprise into $30 billion.
Posted on 8/1/18 at 12:34 pm to Cooter Davenport
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Everyone did. People act like Jobs was unique in that, but he wasn’t. Gates did too. They were the red headed stepchild of Xerox, they knew Xerox would never use their stuff, so they just invited people in to see it, knowing it would get ripped off.
Xerox had no idea of the potential of what they had. Job's true genius was in making it ridiculuously easy to use and putting that technology in mp3 players, phones and tablets and basically creating products that had people believing they couldn't live without.
Posted on 8/1/18 at 12:38 pm to LSU82BILL
Trump, technically a CEO
Posted on 8/1/18 at 12:44 pm to Globetrotter747
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