Most influential CEOs of all time

Requested by a visitor · October 25, 2026

We asked 10 models: The most influential CEOs of all time. Each named its own top 15.

Agreement between models
56%
Same model, run twice
72%
Different picks
30

When agreement between models is well below a model's agreement with itself, the split reflects real differences in taste rather than randomness.

The consensus

Each cell is the position that model gave the pick; blank means it left the pick off. Click a row for each model's reasoning.

#PickScoreListed byClaude Haiku 5.5GPT-6 LunaGemini 4 ArgonQwen 3.8 FlashDeepSeek V4 ProGLM-5.3Kimi K3MiniMax M3Mistral Large 4Nemotron 3 Ultra

15 lower-scoring picks are not shown; every ballot below lists them in full.

Most divisive

Picks most models listed, at very different positions

Hot takes

Picks that appear on only one ballot

Every ballot

Hover a pick to find it on the other ballots. Marked picks appear on no other ballot.

Claude Haiku 5.5

  1. Jack Welch
  2. Henry Ford
  3. Andrew Carnegie
  4. Thomas J. Watson
  5. Alfred P. Sloan
  6. Steve Jobs
  7. John D. Rockefeller
  8. Lee Iacocca
  9. Bill Gates
  10. Jeff Bezos
  11. Sam Walton
  12. Andy Grove
  13. Tim Cook
  14. Akio Morita
  15. Warren Buffett

53% with consensus · 64% self-consistent

GPT-6 Luna

  1. Henry Ford
  2. Steve Jobs
  3. Andrew Carnegie
  4. John D. Rockefeller
  5. Jeff Bezos
  6. Bill Gates
  7. Sam Walton
  8. Jack Welch
  9. Alfred P. Sloan
  10. Akio Morita
  11. Coco Chanel
  12. Walt Disney
  13. Warren Buffett
  14. Lou Gerstner
  15. Indra Nooyi

83% with consensus · 42% self-consistent

Gemini 4 Argon

  1. Henry Ford
  2. John D. Rockefeller
  3. Steve Jobs
  4. Bill Gates
  5. Jeff Bezos
  6. Andrew Carnegie
  7. Sam Walton
  8. Walt Disney
  9. Alfred P. Sloan
  10. Thomas J. Watson Jr.
  11. Warren Buffett
  12. J.P. Morgan
  13. Elon Musk
  14. Jack Welch
  15. Akio Morita

79% with consensus · 81% self-consistent

Qwen 3.8 Flash

  1. Steve Jobs
  2. Henry Ford
  3. Alfred P. Sloan
  4. Bill Gates
  5. Jack Welch
  6. Elon Musk
  7. Sam Walton
  8. Jeff Bezos
  9. Thomas J. Watson
  10. Thomas J. Watson Jr.
  11. Akio Morita
  12. Mark Zuckerberg
  13. Andrew Carnegie
  14. Ingvar Kamprad
  15. Howard Hughes

67% with consensus · 73% self-consistent

DeepSeek V4 Pro

  1. Steve Jobs
  2. Henry Ford
  3. Jeff Bezos
  4. Jack Welch
  5. Bill Gates
  6. Walt Disney
  7. Andrew Carnegie
  8. John D. Rockefeller
  9. Tim Cook
  10. Sam Walton
  11. Elon Musk
  12. Alfred P. Sloan
  13. Akio Morita
  14. Jamie Dimon
  15. Thomas J. Watson Jr.

75% with consensus · 83% self-consistent

GLM-5.3

  1. Steve Jobs
  2. Henry Ford
  3. Jeff Bezos
  4. John D. Rockefeller
  5. Bill Gates
  6. Andrew Carnegie
  7. Jack Welch
  8. Elon Musk
  9. Sam Walton
  10. Thomas J. Watson
  11. Mark Zuckerberg
  12. Larry Page
  13. Ray Kroc
  14. Warren Buffett
  15. Akio Morita

71% with consensus · 73% self-consistent

Kimi K3

  1. Henry Ford
  2. Steve Jobs
  3. John D. Rockefeller
  4. Thomas Edison
  5. Bill Gates
  6. Andy Grove
  7. Jack Welch
  8. Sam Walton
  9. Jeff Bezos
  10. Alfred P. Sloan
  11. Walt Disney
  12. Elon Musk
  13. Akio Morita
  14. Lee Iacocca
  15. Larry Page

76% with consensus · 82% self-consistent

MiniMax M3

  1. Andrew Carnegie
  2. Henry Ford
  3. Steve Jobs
  4. Jack Welch
  5. John D. Rockefeller
  6. Sam Walton
  7. Walt Disney
  8. Bill Gates
  9. Thomas J. Watson
  10. Jeff Bezos
  11. Thomas Edison
  12. Akio Morita
  13. Warren Buffett
  14. Lee Iacocca
  15. Alfred P. Sloan

63% with consensus · 60% self-consistent

Mistral Large 4

  1. Steve Jobs
  2. Bill Gates
  3. Jeff Bezos
  4. Jack Welch
  5. Henry Ford
  6. Sam Walton
  7. Elon Musk
  8. Alfred P. Sloan
  9. Satya Nadella
  10. Andrew Carnegie
  11. Lee Iacocca
  12. Andy Grove
  13. Warren Buffett
  14. Tim Cook
  15. Ray Kroc

65% with consensus · 73% self-consistent

Nemotron 3 Ultra

  1. Steve Jobs
  2. Henry Ford
  3. Bill Gates
  4. Jeff Bezos
  5. Elon Musk
  6. Jack Welch
  7. Sam Walton
  8. Warren Buffett
  9. Walt Disney
  10. Akio Morita
  11. Andrew Carnegie
  12. John D. Rockefeller
  13. Andy Grove
  14. Larry Page
  15. Lee Iacocca

73% with consensus · 85% self-consistent

Who agrees with whom

Overlap between two models' lists, weighted toward the top · 100 means identical · Color runs from 36 (lightest) to 85 (darkest)

Claude Haiku 5.5GPT-6 LunaGemini 4 ArgonQwen 3.8 FlashDeepSeek V4 ProGLM-5.3Kimi K3MiniMax M3Mistral Large 4Nemotron 3 Ultra
Claude Haiku 5.5534348494642603639
GPT-6 Luna538058657177675163
Gemini 4 Argon438055616574584760
Qwen 3.8 Flash485855737458527080
DeepSeek V4 Pro496561738560607481
GLM-5.3467165748564587180
Kimi K3427774586064554759
MiniMax M3606758526058554353
Mistral Large 4365147707471474377
Nemotron 3 Ultra396360808180595377