Most Valuable, I Dare Say

Steve Jobs is MarketWatch’s CEO of the decade. The decision wasn’t close, despite tumultuous events in the world of business: the Google (now worth $190 billion) initial public offering, the meteoric rise, plunge, and stabilization of Wall Street, the government takeover and management (some say mis-management) of the automotive, banking, and health-care industries, and revolutionary developments in medicine, transportation, warfare, and energy, not to mention the rise of China and India.

This humble writer has written about Apple and Steve Jobs before, so it’s unnecessary to do another post about Apple’s rise from the ashes.

Steve Jobs underwent a liver transplant in 2009 and now appears to be in good health. He is on the list to be Time’s Person of the Year.

Apple’s valuation was a mere $5 billion at the beginning of the decade and is now just shy of $300 billion. I don’t know if Apple will overtake Exxon/Mobil to become the most valuable company in the world, but I do know that the most valuable liver in history was the transplanted organ that Steve Jobs received from an unnamed young car-crash victim. Thanks to that person and his family, the world has been changed, and I dare say for the better. © 2010 Stephen Yuen