One thing Apple and its high-profile executives excel at is topping lists. Lists of successful companies, rich people, influential leaders, and so on. The latest one of interest is none other than Vanity Fair’s “100 Leaders of the Information Age”, which puts everyone’s favorite politician, Vladimir Putin, in the top spot — what kind of information age leadership he has, I have no idea.
But that’s besides the point. Our man Steve Jobs is just out of bronze medal position at #4, behind the Google trio comprised of Sergey Brin, Larry Page, and Eric Schmidt which sits at #3. Vanity Fair praises the man who, “[a]fter changing the computer business with his Mac line and the music business with iPod, […] has completely upended the mobile business with iPhone.”
The second Apple icon to make the list is, of course, industrial designer Jonathan Ive at #70. He’s applauded for “the look of all of Apple’s iconic products” and named “by far the best-known and most influential industrial designer on the planet”. Congratulations to him!
Oh, and one more thing… guess who’s #100? Walt Mossberg.
