The Ledger Business Leaders Index
THE LEDGER
Top 100 Business Leaders
Ranking the executives, founders, investors and business leaders
exerting the greatest influence over companies, industries, technology,
capital, supply chains, consumers, governments and the global economy.
LIVE GLOBAL INDEX
Six Pillars:
Influence 20% • Power 20% • Momentum 15% • Media Presence 15% •
Global Relations 15% • Sentiment 15%
Eight Pressure Tests: Decision Authority • Dependency • Speed of Impact • Scale of Reach • Durability • Cross-Domain Influence • Resilience • Catalytic Effect
Eight Pressure Tests: Decision Authority • Dependency • Speed of Impact • Scale of Reach • Durability • Cross-Domain Influence • Resilience • Catalytic Effect
LIVE • Structural Top 100 active
| Rank | Business Leader | Company / Power Center | Ledger Score | Movement |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Elon Musk | Tesla / SpaceX / xAI | 86.2 | ► 0 |
| 2 | Jensen Huang | NVIDIA | 83.5 | ► 0 |
| 3 | Satya Nadella | Microsoft | 82.8 | ► 0 |
| 4 | Sam Altman | OpenAI | 82.4 | ► 0 |
| 5 | Mark Zuckerberg | Meta Platforms | 81.7 | ► 0 |
| 6 | Sundar Pichai | Alphabet / Google | 81.3 | ► 0 |
| 7 | Tim Cook | Apple | 81.0 | ► 0 |
| 8 | Larry Ellison | Oracle | 80.3 | ► 0 |
| 9 | Jamie Dimon | JPMorgan Chase | 80.0 | ► 0 |
| 10 | Larry Fink | BlackRock | 79.7 | ► 0 |
| 11 | Andy Jassy | Amazon | 79.3 | ► 0 |
| 12 | Jeff Bezos | Amazon / Blue Origin | 79.0 | ► 0 |
| 13 | Lisa Su | AMD | 78.7 | ► 0 |
| 14 | Dario Amodei | Anthropic | 78.4 | ► 0 |
| 15 | Alex Karp | Palantir Technologies | 78.1 | ► 0 |
| 16 | Demis Hassabis | Google DeepMind | 77.8 | ► 0 |
| 17 | Warren Buffett | Berkshire Hathaway | 77.5 | ► 0 |
| 18 | Safra Catz | Oracle | 77.2 | ► 0 |
| 19 | Masayoshi Son | SoftBank Group | 77.0 | ► 0 |
| 20 | Mukesh Ambani | Reliance Industries | 76.8 | ► 0 |
| 21 | Bernard Arnault | LVMH | 76.6 | ► 0 |
| 22 | Gautam Adani | Adani Group | 76.4 | ► 0 |
| 23 | Hock Tan | Broadcom | 76.2 | ► 0 |
| 24 | C.C. Wei | TSMC | 76.0 | ► 0 |
| 25 | Cristiano Amon | Qualcomm | 75.8 | ► 0 |
| 26 | Arvind Krishna | IBM | 75.6 | ► 0 |
| 27 | Marc Benioff | Salesforce | 75.4 | ► 0 |
| 28 | Michael Dell | Dell Technologies | 75.2 | ► 0 |
| 29 | Brian Armstrong | Coinbase | 75.0 | ► 0 |
| 30 | Patrick Collison | Stripe | 74.8 | ► 0 |
| 31 | Doug McMillon | Walmart | 74.6 | ► 0 |
| 32 | Wang Chuanfu | BYD | 74.4 | ► 0 |
| 33 | Robin Zeng | CATL | 74.2 | ► 0 |
| 34 | Lei Jun | Xiaomi | 74.0 | ► 0 |
| 35 | David Solomon | Goldman Sachs | 73.8 | ► 0 |
| 36 | Ted Pick | Morgan Stanley | 73.6 | ► 0 |
| 37 | Jane Fraser | Citigroup | 73.4 | ► 0 |
| 38 | Brian Moynihan | Bank of America | 73.2 | ► 0 |
| 39 | Charlie Scharf | Wells Fargo | 73.0 | ► 0 |
| 40 | Dara Khosrowshahi | Uber | 72.8 | ► 0 |
| 41 | Brian Chesky | Airbnb | 72.6 | ► 0 |
| 42 | Daniel Ek | Spotify | 72.4 | ► 0 |
| 43 | Shantanu Narayen | Adobe | 72.2 | ► 0 |
| 44 | Bill McDermott | ServiceNow | 72.0 | ► 0 |
| 45 | Neal Mohan | YouTube | 71.8 | ► 0 |
| 46 | Pavel Durov | Telegram | 71.6 | ► 0 |
| 47 | Nikesh Arora | Palo Alto Networks | 71.4 | ► 0 |
| 48 | George Kurtz | CrowdStrike | 71.2 | ► 0 |
| 49 | Reed Hastings | Netflix | 71.0 | ► 0 |
| 50 | Greg Peters | Netflix | 70.9 | ► 0 |
| 51 | Michael Bloomberg | Bloomberg L.P. | 70.8 | ► 0 |
| 52 | Bill Gates | Gates Foundation / Microsoft | 70.7 | ► 0 |
| 53 | Steve Ballmer | Microsoft / Investments | 70.6 | ► 0 |
| 54 | Reid Hoffman | LinkedIn / AI Investing | 70.5 | ► 0 |
| 55 | François-Henri Pinault | Kering | 70.4 | ► 0 |
| 56 | John Collison | Stripe | 70.3 | ► 0 |
| 57 | Tobias Lütke | Shopify | 70.2 | ► 0 |
| 58 | Melanie Perkins | Canva | 70.1 | ► 0 |
| 59 | Dylan Field | Figma | 70.0 | ► 0 |
| 60 | Evan Spiegel | Snap | 69.9 | ► 0 |
| 61 | Ryan Roslansky | 69.8 | ► 0 | |
| 62 | Eric Yuan | Zoom | 69.7 | ► 0 |
| 63 | Alexandr Wang | AI / Scale AI | 69.6 | ► 0 |
| 64 | Aravind Srinivas | Perplexity | 69.5 | ► 0 |
| 65 | Arthur Mensch | Mistral AI | 69.4 | ► 0 |
| 66 | Mustafa Suleyman | Microsoft AI | 69.3 | ► 0 |
| 67 | Brad Smith | Microsoft | 69.2 | ► 0 |
| 68 | John Ternus | Apple | 69.1 | ► 0 |
| 69 | Ren Zhengfei | Huawei | 69.0 | ► 0 |
| 70 | Pony Ma | Tencent | 68.9 | ► 0 |
| 71 | Daniel Zhang | Technology / China Business | 68.8 | ► 0 |
| 72 | Liang Wenfeng | DeepSeek | 68.7 | ► 0 |
| 73 | Palmer Luckey | Anduril Industries | 68.6 | ► 0 |
| 74 | Brian Schimpf | Anduril Industries | 68.5 | ► 0 |
| 75 | Peter Thiel | Founders Fund / Palantir | 68.4 | ► 0 |
| 76 | Marc Andreessen | Andreessen Horowitz | 68.3 | ► 0 |
| 77 | Ben Horowitz | Andreessen Horowitz | 68.2 | ► 0 |
| 78 | Stephen Schwarzman | Blackstone | 68.1 | ► 0 |
| 79 | Henry Kravis | KKR | 68.0 | ► 0 |
| 80 | Marc Rowan | Apollo Global Management | 67.9 | ► 0 |
| 81 | Albert Bourla | Pfizer | 67.8 | ► 0 |
| 82 | David Ricks | Eli Lilly | 67.7 | ► 0 |
| 83 | Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen | Novo Nordisk | 67.6 | ► 0 |
| 84 | Wael Sawan | Shell | 67.5 | ► 0 |
| 85 | Amin Nasser | Saudi Aramco | 67.4 | ► 0 |
| 86 | Darren Woods | ExxonMobil | 67.3 | ► 0 |
| 87 | Mary Barra | General Motors | 67.2 | ► 0 |
| 88 | Jim Farley | Ford | 67.1 | ► 0 |
| 89 | Oliver Blume | Volkswagen Group | 67.0 | ► 0 |
| 90 | Ola Källenius | Mercedes-Benz | 66.9 | ► 0 |
| 91 | Oliver Zipse | BMW | 66.8 | ► 0 |
| 92 | Jayshree Ullal | Arista Networks | 66.7 | ► 0 |
| 93 | Matthew Prince | Cloudflare | 66.6 | ► 0 |
| 94 | Samir Kapuria | Cybersecurity / Technology | 66.5 | ► 0 |
| 95 | David Baszucki | Roblox | 66.4 | ► 0 |
| 96 | Tim Sweeney | Epic Games | 66.3 | ► 0 |
| 97 | Patrick Spence | Technology / Consumer | 66.2 | ► 0 |
| 98 | Christian Klein | SAP | 66.1 | ► 0 |
| 99 | Chuck Robbins | Cisco | 66.0 | ► 0 |
| 100 | Lip-Bu Tan | Intel | 65.9 | ► 0 |