Newspaper Guard It ranked the leaders of tech companies in 2022 and selected those that disappointed journalists the most. According to the publication, Elizabeth Holmes, founder of Theranos, and Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO of FTX cryptocurrency exchange, showed themselves the worst.
Also on the list are Mark Zuckerberg, head of Meta (known as an extremist and banned in Russia), Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who stepped down as company president in July 2021, and new head of Twitter, which acquired it Elon Musk. social network $44 billion.
Zuckerberg was hailed as an unsuccessful leader in February of this year due to the record plunge in company stock and his decision to lay off nearly 11,000 employees in one day. Bezos was criticized for mass layoffs at Amazon and sought to improve his public image through philanthropy.
Elon Musk has been denounced by journalists for his many actions as head of Twitter: mass layoffs, the creation of new rules, the requirement to work in the office, and the placement of beds at headquarters.
Also on the list is Parag Agrawal, former Twitter CEO who ran the company before Musk. According to journalists, Musk’s success in acquiring the company is, to some extent, Agrawal’s failure. Including if the specialist lost his position on the day he bought the social network.
Theranos was initially considered a progressive medical enterprise, and Elizabeth Holmes – “the future Steve Jobs”. Investigations revealed that he was a fraudster who misled his own employees and many sponsors of the company. In 2022 this was finally confirmed in court.
In November of this year, the FTX crypto exchange crashed and millions of customers from all over the world lost their assets. At the same time, Sam Bankman-Fried continued to speak at events and assured that he would return the money. A few weeks later he was arrested in the Bahamas and extradited to the United States. The head of FTX has been accused of one of the biggest financial scams in American history.
A previously unknown hacker He insisted Elon Musk will buy back the data of 400 million Twitter user accounts from him so that it is not in the public domain.