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Title: Chief Executive Officer Company: Meta Platforms Industry: Technology / Social Media

22 years after the dorm room, Mark Zuckerberg is spending like a man who intends to win the next platform outright. Meta’ s AI labs are recruiting researchers at footballer prices, its Ray-Ban smart glasses tripled sales in a year and more than three billion people still open his apps every day, a reach no company in history has matched. The reinventions keep coming too, from the metaverse detour he financed through ridicule to the superintelligence push he now calls the company’ s defining project. Courtrooms have been less kind, with regulators circling on several continents, but the founder’ s grip has never loosened. He remains the only Big Tech chief still running the company he built as a teenager, with the voting shares to keep it that way indefinitely.

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