Facebook, Apple, Uber and Amazon CEOs Top Vanity Fair's 'Disrupters' List
Facebook’s (FB) Mark Zuckerberg took the number one spot on Vanity Fair’s 2015 New Establishment Disrupter’s list. The 31-year-old billionaire tech CEO was also the first business person to grace the cover of the magazine. ‘It really speaks to the cultural impact that technology has had - that we would put Zuckerberg on the cover,’ said Vanity Fair’s contributing editor Betsy Kenny Lack. ‘Just last month, during one day, Facebook had one billion users around the world, which is one in seven people, so I think you can say Facebook is connecting the world.’ Number two on the list is Uber CEO Travis Kalanick. While Uber is not a public company, reports suggest the car service app is worth over $50 billion. ‘Uber has regulatory issues they will have to deal with, but the company is on fire and Travis will be appearing on Steven Colbert’s first week of guests,’ Lack said, referring to ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,’ which debuted on CBS Corporation’s (CBS) CBS network on Tuesday. ‘Kalanick is also trying to invade Google’s (GOOG) territory in terms of the driverless car, so I think you’ll see more from Uber,’ she added. Amazon (AMZN) CEO Jeff Bezos took the third spot on the list. Amazon is now worth more than Walmart Stores (WMT). Bezos came under fire last month with a highly critical article in The New York Times about Amazon’s workplace culture. TheStreet’s Scott Gamm reports from New York.









