Whether you love or despise high-profile CEOs like Meta (META) -) chief Mark Zuckerberg or Tesla's (TSLA) -) Elon Musk, one thing is for sure: a lot of people listen to what they have to say.
While Zuckerberg's approach tends to be more polished and Musk leans more towards chaotic, both have had enormous impact on the tech industry thanks to their companies, so it's hard to say which is better at his job (although if you use net worth as the measuring stick, Musk is clearly the winner).
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However, a new speech analysis study from online tutoring firm Preply alleges that Musk is lacking in intelligence in comparison to his peers.
Basing its finding on factors such as vocabulary breadth (diversity of words used) and sophistication (complexity of chosen words), textural readability (intricacy of sentence structures and depth of ideas), critical thinking (argument formation, deconstruction, and analysis), and contextual relevance (speaker's ability to link their dialogue with broader contexts or integrate insights from other fields.)
Using these data points, Musk ranked at a 64, putting him at No. 16 on the list below peers like Zuckerberg and former Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
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The list was topped by DeepMind CEO and neuroscientist Demis Hassabis at 87.33, followed by Blackstone's Steven Schwarzman at 74.33, Berkshire Hathaway's Warren Buffett at 74, Goldman Sachs' David M. Solomon at 71.33, and Jeff Bezos at 71.
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