Talk of succession atop Big Tech grows louder
Giants including Salesforce, Apple and Microsoft may get new bosses in the next year or two
MOST BOSSES, even of multibillion-dollar businesses, are anonymous to anyone who is not their employee or an equity analyst. Except, that is, technology bosses—and not just founders like Amazon’s Jeff Bezos or Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook. Many bystanders are familiar with the bespectacled visages of Satya Nadella, who runs Microsoft, or Tim Cook, from Apple. Over the next year or so people may need to learn some new faces.
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Business February 8th 2020
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- Talk of succession atop Big Tech grows louder
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