Steve Jobs leads online voting for best beard in Silicon Valley
There are an awful lot of Silicon Valley CEOs sporting beards these days. As Michael Copeland writes in the current issue of Fortune, “it takes more than leading-edge technology and a Stanford MBA to make it big in high tech. Apparently it takes whiskers.”
So the magazine organized a contest: The Silicon Valley Beard-off. It pulled together a spread of eight unshaven execs and invited a panel of three distinguished judges to choose the best beard of the bunch. You can see the results here.
You can also vote for your favorite among the four semi-finalists: Apple’s (AAPL) Steve Jobs, Flickr’s (YHOO) Stewart Butterfield, Pixar’s (DIS) Ed Catmull, and Oracle’s (ORCL) Larry Ellison. Click here.
The leader in early returns — with 53% of votes cast as of Wednesday morning — is Steve Jobs.
Vox populi is clearly at variance with Fortune’s judges. They didn’t vote Apple’s grizzled CEO past the first round, in which he edged out Steve Wozniak.
I think some commenter here do not understand the significance and history of the beard in IT and how this signifies the begin of the end for microsoft.
This proves apples is officially a cult and Jobs is your religious icon. Only you mindless itard lemmings would pay attention to something like this.
Give me a break…..we don’t have anything else to talk about in this world!
If you’d like to see an exciting, alternate beard contest, check out the Beard 500. Comprised of various bearding legends, in the style of a NASCAR event…
http://www.myspace.com/beard500
and here:
Jobs is overall cuter, this why he got more votes.
And, relax and have a bit of fun.
Don’t worry, mayham and murder is still awaiting you on every other page.
Well, duh! Everybody working for Jobs is probably voting for him in fear of be canned if they vote otherwise 
Is media so desperate for news that now need to vote for best beard.
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Silicon Valley veterans like to joke that Steve Jobs must be surrounded by a reality distortion field; if you get too close to him, you start to believe what he's saying. Thanks to the success of the iPod, the launch of the iPhone and the renewed interest in the Mac, Apple has made believers out of millions of customers - and made a lot of investors rich. But Philip Elmer-DeWitt believes that an ounce of skepticism never hurts when writing about the company. He should know. He's been covering Apple - and watching Steve Jobs operate - since 1982, first for Time Magazine, then for Business 2.0, and now for Fortune.
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Maybe you should all try growing a beard - cause you certainly ain’t capable of growing a funny bone.