Using the results of a survey by YouGov, Visual Capitalist ranked the most-liked business figures in the US. Figures are accurate as of September 2024.
Former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates is both the most famous and most popular business figure on the list; 97 percent of Americans know who he is, while 45 percent view him positively.
World-famous investor Warren Buffet has the second-highest popularity rating (44 percent), followed by Mark Cuban (43 percent) and Elon Musk (42 percent).
Despite there being around 130 million iPhone users in the US, just 65 percent of people surveyed know who Apple CEO Tim Cook is — and fewer than half of those (30 percent) have a positive opinion of him.
Though some of the biggest names in business are more popular than others, the chart shows that the majority of Americans don't like any of them.
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Via Voronoi.