34 Public Companies That Made Time's 100 Most Influential For 2022: AMC, Disney, Ford And More

Time announced this week its annual 100 Most Influential Companies list. Here’s a look at the publicly traded companies that made the list.

What Happened: The 2022 winners were divided into five categories with the Titans category containing the most publicly traded companies of the five groups.

Many of the privately held companies could become publicly traded in the future with Reddit, Impossible Foods and TikTok among the most well-known non-public companies on the list. Parents will also be pleased to hear that Pinkfrog, the company behind “Baby Shark” also made the list.

Here’s a look at the public companies on the list divided by categories and included with the tagline Time attributed to best describe the reason for inclusion.

Pioneers:

  • IonQ Inc (NYSE:IONQ): Going quantum

Titans:

Related Link: Curaleaf Among Time's 100 Most Influential Companies In The World 

Leaders:

Innovators:

Disruptors:

Why It’s Important: The Time list contains a wide range of companies based on name-brand awareness and valuation with some of the largest companies in the world like Apple, Amazon and Nvidia making the list.

The list also highlights several companies that went public over the last 15 months including some by SPAC merger (Sonder, Starry, SoFi, Nextdoor) and others that completed IPOs (Rivian, Allbirds).

Appearing on the list is no guarantee of future success but can help highlight the companies and increase brand awareness and lead to marketing opportunities and better recruiting for job candidates.

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