TIME Magazine is out with its twelfth-annual 100 most influential people list and Apple CEO Tim Cook has once again made the list. Cook was last featured on the list in 2012 shortly after officially taking over the CEO role from Steve Jobs.
On this year’s list, Cook joins other tech executives, including: Brian Chesky, CEO, Airbnb; Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft; Reid Hoffman, co-Founder, LinkedIn; Elizabeth Holmes, CEO, Theranos; Lei Jun, CEO, Xiaomi; Susan Wojcicki, CEO, YouTube and Anita Sarkeesian, blogger and founder, Feminist Frequency.
Congressman John Lewis wrote Tim Cook’s entry on the list this year noting, “It could not have been easy for Tim Cook to step into the immense shadow cast by the late Apple co-founder, Steve Jobs. But with grace and courage and an unabashed willingness to be his own man, Tim has pushed Apple to unimaginable profitability—and greater social responsibility.”
Lewis goes onto mention Cook’s work advocating for equality and LGBT rights as well as his commitment to renewable energy at Apple.
While he didn’t make the list himself, another senior Apple executive, Jony Ive, penned the entry for Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky. Ive calls the company a “remarkable startup”: “…his obsession with detail and practicality doesn’t confine or compromise his dreaming but rather makes what could so easily be noble but abstract ideas functional and real.” Ive made the list back in 2013 with a tribute written by U2 frontman Bono.
You can see the full Time 100 list here and how the list was picked here.
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Kanye West? Hahahahahahahaha. Ok. Even Bradly Cooper. Influential? Come on, Time is really reaching. They should have just gone with the dozen most influential people if that’s all they could realistically come up with.
You might laugh but the thing is, around the world more people are going to know who Kanye & Bradley are compared to Tim Cook. Sad as it sounds :)
Interesting that Jony Ive made this list (2013) before Tim Cook did.
What’s interesting is that there are still some people who don’t give Tim any respect for the job he has done leading Apple since taking over from Steve.
I was willing to give him a chance, but now we have soldered in RAM, no more quad core Mac minis, not a single expansion slot anywhere in the Mac line, and he put Jony Ive as head of interface design which has given us the most buggy and ugly versions of iOS and OS X we’ve seen in years, not to mention the atrocity that is iTunes. Both Cook and Ive desperately need to be replaced.
Tim Cook made the list back in 2012.
CEO of the world’s most valuable company is influential? Stop the presses!