5 CEOs Who Think Like Steve Jobs
#2 John C. Martin, Gilead Sciences
Gilead Sciences is an American biotechnology company that discovers, develops and commercializes therapeutics. The company’s CEO John C. Martin has been the brains behind one of the fastest-growing drug stocks on Wall Street since taking over in 1996. The stock is up about 2,700% in those 15 years.
He, like Jobs was credited with well doing of the company, and like Jobs Martin understood how to take calculated risks and use capital responsibly to grow and squeeze out competitors. After riding high due to successful antiviral medications including flu vaccines, in 2006 Gilead made quality acquisitions to enter into the profitable cardiovascular and respiratory markets.
The company is currently into HIV research, and if it succeeds, it too can make a product which will bring revolution in medical world like iPhone brought in consumer electronics world.
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