Human jobs still matter

Jony Ive

Arrived years before the comeback. His designs for the iMac and iPhone made Apple the most valuable company in the world.

Gwynne Shotwell

Sold the launches that kept SpaceX alive in the early years and now runs the company as President.

Greg Brockman

Became CTO and built Stripe's engineering team, then went on to co-found OpenAI.

Satya Nadella

Rose from engineer to CEO over 22 years and led Microsoft's reinvention around cloud and AI.

Jeff Dean

Built the systems behind Search and went on to lead Google's AI research.

Franz von Holzhausen

Joined a startup that had built one car and designed everything since, from the Model S to the Cybertruck.

Andy Grove

Intel's first hire. As CEO he bet the company on microprocessors and defined modern management.

Sheryl Sandberg

Joined as COO when Facebook was 500 people and built the ad business that made it a giant.

Sundar Pichai

Joined as a product manager, shipped Chrome, and now runs Google and Alphabet.

Tim Cook

Left Compaq for an Apple weeks from bankruptcy. His supply chain made the iPhone possible, then he became CEO.

Mary Meeker

Joined as an analyst and became the internet's definitive scorekeeper. Her trends report moved the whole industry.

Andy Jassy

Turned a memo into AWS, the business that powers the internet, then became Amazon's CEO.

Michael O'Leary

Joined a small loss-making Irish airline, became CEO, and turned it into Europe's largest carrier.

Susan Wojcicki

Google's 16th hire; the company started in her garage. She built its ad products and ran YouTube for nine years.

Tim Berners-Lee

Invented the World Wide Web as a side project at CERN, then gave it away to everyone.