(In the above video, Steve Jobs, chief executive officer and co-founder of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, urged graduates to pursue their dreams and see the opportunities in life’s setbacks — including death itself — at the university’s 114th Commencement on June 12, 2005.)
Steve Jobs is known as both mercurial and visionary, part rock-star CEO and part master salesman, a meticulous micromanager who can drive his employees to distraction — and one of the most important figures in American industry in the past half-century. And today, he’s been named as MarketWatch’s CEO of the Decade:
With Jobs’s mantras of putting the customer first and of desiring nothing more than to make great products ruling the day at Apple, consumers have been as delighted as investors. For the Apple faithful, the decade was a virtual orgy of technological wonderment, marked by marvel after marvel, alongside several inventions that rewrote the books. He also oversaw a big expansion of the company, hiring tens of thousands of workers as the company’s ranks swelled to more than 46,000 from about 8,500 at the start of the decade. Revenue skyrocketed. For those reasons and more, Jobs has been named MarketWatch’s CEO of the Decade. – read more at MarketWatch