Apple CEO Steve Jobs is ‘CEO of the Decade’, according to MarketWatch, which likens the iPhone, iPod and iPad guru to Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell for his impact on society. The announcement comes just a year after Fortune named Jobs as CEO of the Year.
Jobs held the reigns on what the financial publication termed “a virtual orgy of technological wonderment.”
Although the profile depicts Jobs as a Silicon Valley rockstar who made $1,000 in Apple stock in 2000 grow to $43,000 by the end of this year, the question of succession remains on the table.
Jobs will need to construct another display case for all of his ‘CEO of the Decade’ awards. In 2009, Fortune picked the Apple head as that year’s ‘CEO of the Decade,’ calling him a financial wunderkind able to rebuild aging industries and withstand the downwardly-spiraling economy, while also battling health issues.
Earlier this year, Fortune came back with another accolade for Apple, the CEO becoming the 17th most powerful person on the planet.
Ed Sutherland is a veteran technology journalist who first heard of Apple when they grew on trees, Yahoo was run out of a Stanford dorm and Google was an unknown upstart. Since then, Sutherland has covered the whole technology landscape, concentrating on tracking the trends and figuring out the finances of large (and small) technology companies.
