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Mostly-American Corporate CEOs

Name the corporations headed by these famous Chief Executive Officers, past and present.
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Last updated: October 11, 2022
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First submittedFebruary 1, 2013
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CEO
Company
Steve Jobs
Apple
Bill Gates
Microsoft
Sam Walton
Wal-Mart
Mark Zuckerberg
Facebook
Richard Branson
Virgin
Elon Musk
Tesla
Jack Welch
GE
CEO
Company
Jeff Bezos
Amazon
Lee Iacocca
Chrysler
Michael Eisner
Disney
Ken Lay
Enron
Larry Ellison
Oracle
Ray Kroc
McDonald's
Warren Buffett
Berkshire Hathaway
CEO
Company
Dick Cheney
Halliburton
Rupert Murdoch
News Corp
John D. Rockefeller
Standard Oil
Larry Page
Google
Jack Dorsey
Twitter
Indra Nooyi
Pepsi
Jamie Dimon
JPMorgan Chase
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Level 90
Mar 4, 2013
Ouch. You got me on Rockefeller - I got caught up trying to match up the modern-day corporation (Exxon) instead of what it was known by back when he ran it.
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Level 84
Oct 11, 2022
I could only think of KBR for Cheney. Do illicit bedfellows count? ;-)
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Level 72
Oct 11, 2022
Nice idea for a quiz. I had never heard of Iacocca, Kroc or Nooyi. I was surprised by the global nature of their companies, I was half expecting a company that whilst big in America hadn't the same presence across the pond. Although I see Iacocca retired in ‘92, that’s a bit before my time of reading the business section in papers.

You could add Phil Knight of Nike or Howard Schultz of Starbucks.

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Level 76
Oct 15, 2022
...and for a flair of European evil, Schneider of Nestlé and Looney of BP. Although, Schneider is also American.
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Level 67
Oct 11, 2022
Is it bad that I guessed Welches and Lays? Ha, didn't know most of these.
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Level 88
Oct 13, 2022
Nope, I tried both Lay's and Frito Lay for Ken Lay! ;)
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Level 84
Oct 13, 2022
Bummed that Fox didn't work for Rupert Murdoch.
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Level 65
Oct 29, 2022
Me too
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Level 41
Oct 29, 2022
Fox or Fox News really should be acceptable for Rupert Murdoch
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Level 67
Oct 29, 2022
Don't know whether its a coincidence or on purpose this has beeb featured the day after Musk bought Twitter, but he's not listed for it, still Dorsey.
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Level 71
Oct 29, 2022
This quiz includes both past and present CEOs, so it's okay for Jack Dorsey to be on here. That being said, Twitter should be accepted as a type-in for Elon Musk.
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Level 67
Oct 29, 2022
Tried "Ford" for Iacocca about six times because I know he oversaw the development of the Mustang, but eventually got Chrysler because I know he was a car guy. I remember reading an article about Nooyi like 15 years ago. That's the only reason I've heard of her. The rest are all very gettable. Surprised Jamie Dimon is so low. He is the biggest name in finance.
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Level 67
Oct 29, 2022
One woman… come on
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Level 70
Oct 30, 2022
Mary Barra (GM), Marissa Mayer (Yahoo!), and Carly Fiorina (HP) are three names that should be fairly recognizable to anyone who's followed business.
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Level 67
Nov 1, 2022
And Elizabeth Holmes would pair nicely with Ken Lay.
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Level 82
Oct 31, 2022
Men are subject to far more pressure to make money and "succeed" in their careers than women are and so get pushed into these types of jobs by culture. Additionally, becoming a corporate CEO or high-ranking politician is less correlated with privilege than it is with psychopathy, and men are more predisposed toward that than women are. Also, many of these CEOs are very old (some are dead) and it's true that several decades ago women were not given the same opportunities as men. Finally, though I think this is the least important factor, while men and women have the same average intelligence, there are more outliers among men: more that are very stupid, and also more that are geniuses.
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Level 75
Nov 10, 2022
I mostly agree with your assessment. With some of the recent upstart politicians (and outspoken, misinformed voters) in the US, I'm less certain that the rate of stupidity is lower among women. Seems there's plenty to go around.
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Level 64
Nov 22, 2022
I think this has been demonstrated in IQ tests. Men make up a greater proportion of those at the lower/higher end of the spectrum than women.
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Level 78
Jan 23, 2024
It's well known that nowadays men and women are always given equal opportunities