THE 100 MOST POWERFUL PEOPLE IN BUSINESS

Our second-annual ranking of the most influential people in the world of business today.

- Geoff Colvin

WHAT IS POWER?

Imagine the world's most valuable companies and the nations with the largest economies are clambering over one another to get what you sell—and they want more than you can produce.

That's life for Jensen Huang, CEO and co-founder of Nvidia and No. 1 on Fortune's 2025 ranking of the world's 100 most powerful people in business. After decades of naysayers dismissing the value of Huang's specialized computer chips, that hardware is now the most coveted by companies developing artificial intelligence, arguably the most profoundly important technology ever. That's why Nvidia is today the most valuable company traded on U.S. exchanges. The other mega-tech CEOs in our top 10 most powerful—Microsoft's Satya Nadella, Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, Alphabet's Sundar Pichai—are among those desperately yearning for more of Huang's chips.