In September 2017 Forbes snubbed Apple's CEO on their list of the top 100 business minds in Silicon Valley and then in December Glassdoor's highest rated CEO list had Tim Cook crash from #8 in 2016 to #53 in 2017. Of course for the money Cook earns, he's the one laughing all the way to the bank. Yet it's still some kind of barometer of what those in the industry think of Cook as the one running Apple. One of the first lists coming out for 2018 isn't moving the needle much for Mr. Cook either.

A new SurveyMonkey/Recode poll ranks Amazon as the #1 company for having the most impact on society today. Apple was #3 on the list as noted in the chart below.

As for poll on the most likely major tech CEO to have the greatest impact on people's daily lives, Amazon's Jeff Bezos was listed as number one, with Google's Sundar Pichai ranked #2 and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg at #3. Where was Apple's Tim Cook? Not even a mention.

Where's the top ten list for the CEO statistic? Hello? I don't know if Recode is forcing readers to sign up for their daily newsletter to get the rest of this story to see where Mr. Cook ended up, because they don't spell that out. On that basis it's a bit of a shoddy report.

What made Amazon this surprising top contributor to society? I think we'd all like to know the answer to that mysterious result, right? Perhaps it's because he owns a glaringly anti-conservative newspaper that tickles the funny bone of those in Silicon Valley. Better yet, perhaps there's a part two to this report with some actual rationale behind the survey's findings.

Nonetheless, Apple's CEO and Apple in general didn't seem to impress the golden 2,772 U.S. adults who participated in this SurveyMonkey survey. Perhaps it was conducted at Amazon's headquarters.

While Recode's report provides us with more questions than answers, you could check out it for yourself here.

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