Lou Whiteman

I'm going to put Sundar Pichai at the top of my list.

He gets my gold medal here.

He has been at Alphabet for 10 years now.

And during his tenure, earnings per share are up over 800%.

This was already a large company 10 years ago.

To see earnings per share go up another 800% during his tenure is phenomenal to me.

You look at also what he's done in the age of AI, falling flat on their faces out of the gate with Bard, if you remember.

Yeah.

That was when people were calling for his head.

They wanted him fired as CEO.

I think that's another reason he gets gold here, because he was taking a lot of heat for his leadership during that time, and yet kind of cool, level-headed, stayed the course.

Gemini has been a completely different story, and Alphabet is firing on all cylinders right now.

Yeah, me and Lou agree with the silver medal, and that's Jensen Huang for me as well, and for all the reasons that Lou said.

He does have a very good ability to see where things are going in the world.

I'd say he does a really good job of communicating that to his shareholders and his team as well.

Definitely, he has to make the podium as the world's most valuable company.

I would give the bronze to Mark Zuckerberg.

I know that some people will push back on that.

specifically because of the fact that it seems like he's a one-hit wonder with Facebook.

But I'm going to push back on that a little bit.