Power is precarious: the more you own, the more competitors you put on, shoot for your customers, star employees and market shares. We have broken down five of the largest rivalries in the economy in terms of chips, AI, EVS, investing and finance as well as energy. And even though these incumbents and emerging competitors are violent, they never count the dark horses that starve after one point.
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AI chips
Jensen Huang
CEO, president and co -founder, Nvidia – US
Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, could have taken a moment to enjoy the meteoric increase in his company to the top place, which increases the increasing demand for its powerful chips that the AI for the performance of power generative. Now The most valuable company in the worldNVIDIA controls over 90% of the market for specialized chips with which AI systems were trained and executed. This raises its dominance in the hardware race, which heats up the AI boom. Nevertheless, Huang keeps an eye on the horizon. AMD positions itself as a practical alternativeWhile startups such as Groq, Cerebras and Sambanova rely on custom chips to accelerate the AI inference. Nobody represents a serious threat to Nvidia’s dominance.
Lisa are
CEO and chairman, AMD – USA
Lisa Su, CEO of AMD, met her first cousin, Jensen Huang, until both of them rose to lead two of the most powerful chip manufacturers in the world. “There were no family dinner”, ” SU recently said in an interview in an interview. “It is an interesting coincidence.” But the two cannot avoid now. With the company headquarters in the same city in Silicon Valley, AMD is difficult to establish itself as a sustainable second source for AI chips. The company has secured profits from large players as secured Microsoft and Meta – both the supply chains diversify and the dependence on the strictly controlled hardware and software ecosystem from Nvidia. –Sharon Goldman
Musk: Win McNamee – Small Pictures; Wang: VCG/Getty Images
Electric vehicles
Elon Muschus
CEO, co -founder and other roles, Tesla, SpaceexXai and others – us
Elon Musk, the man who brought EVS into the masses, saw Eroding Tesla’s assets when it is involved in social media and politics. Tesla’s annual deliveries in 2024 have decreased for the first time and have decreased over the year since the year. Musk has bet on the future on Teslas AI and only one camera self -driving system with a soft system Robotaxi Start in June and the continuous development of his humanoid robot. Critics argue that the company’s self -driving technology is far behind that of competitors such as Waymo and Alphabet’s Waymo and far behind Byd. While Tesla Is still the most valuable car company in the world. It is not clear that it will keep the top position.
Wang Chuanfu
CEO, chairman and founder, BYD – China
The late Charlie Munger, one of the most successful investors of all time, described Wang Chuanfu, founder and CEO of BYD, as hardworking “genius”. When BYD started Tesla for the top position in EV sales in 2023, the US car industry began. Byds affordable models, ultra -past charging technology and free driver aid systems have helped The company collects 20% of the Global EV market. So far, BYD is the second largest EV battery manufacturer in the world. The innovative leaf battery uses iron and phosphate to keep prices low. –Jessica Mathews
Altman: Joel Saget – AFP/Getty Images; Zuckerberg: Chris Unger – Fafa LLC
Artificial intelligence
Sam Altman
CEO and co -founder, Openai – USA
Altman’s leadership of Openaai made him one of the most powerful and polarizing figures of Silicon Valley. The AI company quickly rises to the top table from Tech, with More than 780 million weekly chatt usersLarge corporate and government customers as well as expansion plans in areas that range from the software of office productivity to A new hardware device be built by earlier Apple Designer Jony Ive. Worth almost 300 billion US dollars in a risk capital round from Softbank in MarchOpenai is on the right track to generate sales of more than 10 billion US dollars this year (and at the same time lost billions of dollars every year).
Mark Zuckerberg
CEO, chairman and founder, Meta – US
Altman’s meteoric rise made him many enemies. He leaked with Elon Musk years ago and recently met with Mark Zuckerberg from Meta, which it was Poching Openai employee with multi-million dollar compacts. Google Deepmind Companies with Openai to create the most capable AI models, and Chatgpt also represents an existential risk of Google’s dominance for the internet search. In the meantime, between Altman and the Anthropic co -greenery, who have decided in 2021 from Openai, no love is lost, some of which deals with concerns about Altman’s leadership and engagement. –Jeremy Kahn
Dimon: Al Drago – Bloomberg/Getty Images; Rowan: Yuki Iwamura – Bloomberg/Getty Images
Finance
Jamie Dimon
CEO and chairman JPmorgan Chase – US
When he closes the country’s largest bank on his 20th anniversary as CEO, Jamie Dimon is the undisputed dean of Wall Street and is ready to go into history as one of the greatest bankers of all time. In times of crisis, the Dimon markets turn to Dimon as a source of clear and unvarnished authority. His stature grew in 2024 when he led JPmorgan Chase Profits of 58.5 billion US dollars for sales of $ 278.9 billion. Dimon also reacted to a growing competition from the private equity world by establishing his own credit facilities and spending a warning shot on Apollo and others Stop poaching junior bankers.
Marc Rowan
CEO, chair and co -founder, Apollo Global Management – US
Marc Rowan, a former Corporate lawyer, has developed in recent years as a dominant personality in the rapidly growing world of private equity. In 2021, Rowan CEO became Apollo, which he came along, and created a courageous strategic shift that was revolving private loans, a field that has doubled to around 2 trillion dollars in the past five years. The pivot was very lucrative and helped Apollo to make a profit of $ 1.49 billion in the fourth quarter of 2024. Rowan’s private lender is a growing challenge for traditional banks such as JPMorgan Chase, since Apollo and others become registrations for large companies and institutions. –Jeff John Roberts
Woods: Andrey Rudakov – Bloomberg/Getty Images; Wirth: Hollie Adams – Bloomberg/Getty Images
energy
Darren Woods
CEO and Chairman Exxon Mobil – USA
After the US shief energy boom was missed, Exxon mobile played after catching up when Darren Woods In 2017 took over the CEO Dowand arch rival Chevron Excited it for the first time for the first time. The focus of Woods on capital discipline, but the returns of shareholders and M&A has again exxon in the industry, where it leads slate production in the booming Perm basin. His oil discoveries in Offshore Guyana are the envy of the energy world.
Mike Wirth
CEO and chairman Chevron – USA
Mike Wirth, a Chevron -Lifer who entered an engineer in 1982, took over a year after Woods at Exxon Mobil in 2018. After Chevron served as an energy favorite for investors for a few years, he now faces a revitalized Exxon. They are rivals in the Perm basin. You have just settled a long arbitration rivalry via A Dispute in Guyana. They are even competitors in the burgeoning US lithium business. Both remained on fossil fuels and associated carbon companies during the European Bp And Sleeve Fight to expand green energy. In the meantime, Total energy is the only oil master that doubles for a focus on renewable energies. –Jordan Blum
This article appears in the August/September 2025 Edition of Assets.
