The Best CEO's Of Past Two Decades.

Many have achieved great heights in this process and vice versa. However, the real test of a CEO's leadership has to be how the company does over his or her full tenure. Here are the best CEO's of past two decades. 1. Steve Jobs

Jobs co-founded Apple in 1976, but the original team turned to outsiders to run the company in its early stages of growth. He introduced the Macintosh at the now legendary annual shareholders meeting in 1984, changing the landscape of the personal computer industry and vaulting Apple into the forefront, but would leave the company a year later due to internal strife. Jobs then founded his own company called NeXT Computer, and bought part of LucasFilm's graphics division which became Pixar before going back to run Apple in 1996. In the next decade and a half, Jobs would introduce huge hits like the iMac, iPod, iTunes, iPhone and iPad. Apple has now grown into a $326 billion market cap tech behemoth with Jobs at the helm, though he has recently taken leave for medical reasons.

2. Mark Zuckerberg

The social networking site Facebook, which was devised by Mark Zuckerberg in his Harvard dorm room in 2004, has helped him become the world?s youngest billionaire and be named TIME?s ?Personal of the Year? last December.

In November 2010, Facebook's value was $41 billion and the site became the third largest US web company after Google and Amazon. As of July 2011, Facebook has more than 800 million active users.

3. Bill Gates

Bill Gates, an American business magnate, investor and former CEO and current chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen. After stepping down from his CEO role in 2000, Gates has focused on charity work and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of CEO and chief software architect, and remains the largest individual shareholder, with more than 8 percent of the common stock.

Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution. Although he is admired by many, a number of industry insiders criticize his business tactics, which they consider anticompetitive.

4. Jeff Bezos

Bezos founded Amazon.com as an online bookstore in 1994, and has since become one of the most successful dot-com entrepreneur billionaires ever.

His greatest accomplishment is developing Amazon?s incredibly efficient business model, adapting the initial non-brick-and-mortar bookstore concept to all goods. He started by diversifying to CDs, DVDs, software and computer games, but soon expanded to sell pretty much everything. Amazon is now the world?s biggest online retailer with a $96 billion market cap. Jeff Bezos also completed some big acquisitions throughout the years including Zappos, IMDb, Alexa Internet and Audible.com. Recently Jeff Bezos launched a new Amazon Kindle Fire tablet with a very low price of $199.

5. John Chambers

John Chambers joined Cisco as an executive in 1991 and was promoted to CEO in 1995, growing the company exponentially during his tenure.

He began a growth strategy immediately, buying up nearly a dozen companies within the first year. Over the next decade, Chambers would spearhead numerous multi-billion dollar acquisitions, including the purchases of Cerent and Linksys. Now Cisco is the one of the largest technology corporations in the world, with a market cap of $87 billion and annual revenues hitting $40 billion.

6. Larry Ellison

Larry Ellison co-founded enterprise software company Oracle in 1977 and built the company in the face of heavy competitive pressure.

IBM was the database industry leader, but it stuttered in entering the mid-range market, opening the

door for Oracle, Informix and Sybase. After a lengthy battle between the three companies, Oracle came out on top after Sybase tailed off and IBM absorbed Informix in 2000. The Oracle grew revenue 15 percent from $23.3 billion in 2009 to $26.8 billion in 2010 in its fiscal year ended on May 31. As of 2011, Ellison is the world?s fifth richest person with a personal wealth of $39.5 billion.