Steve Jobs, CEO of the decade

Has any CEO ever even had a year as good as Jobs did in 2001, in what otherwise was probably the bleakest year in the past four decades?

“Over the course of 2001, as global markets fell and the world headed into recession, Apple launched the iTunes music software (in January), the Mac OS X operating system (March), the first Apple retail stores (May), and the first iPod (November), a 5GB model that Apple bragged would hold 1,000 songs.

The market didn’t catch on quickly to the significance of those events.”

But it definitely caught up.