That would be a healthy, balanced and long-term-oriented approach. But those who get to the level of CEO are subjected to intense forces that select against those traits.

I don’t know much about this guy but it’s reasonable to assume that any C-level exec will hold on to the position for dear life until they are forced out.

Here's more info on Pat. He is not your average CEO. He wrote this book almost 20 years ago. Why do you resort to conversation about assumptions?

The Juggling Act: Bringing Balance to Your Faith, Family, and Work

https://www.amazon.com/Juggling-Act-Bringing-Balance-Family/...

Plenty of sociopaths have written bullshit books for fame and money. It doesn't mean anything. Besides, the guy is clearly delusional with all the mentions of faith and god

> any C-level exec will hold on to the position for dear life until they are forced out

I don't know. Frank Slootman's retirement from Snowflake earlier this year was certainly not celebrated by any significant stakeholders. I'd imagine at some point someone like Frank realizes that they are worth more than Tim Cook, they consider that they're in their mid-60s, and they decide the remaining time they have on earth might be better spent in other ways.

Every person in the workforce, no matter how ambitious or how senior, is forced into the calculus of money and power vs. good years remaining. I expect the rational ones will select the balance point for themselves.

There are certainly some indications this was something that was not long in the planning. On the other hand, when (solid) financial security is not a subject on the table, it's a lot easier for many folks to let go--especially given that they can probably do as many board or advisor gigs in the industry as they have an appetite for. Or just go on to a new chapter.

That’s not at all who Pat is

True CEO retirements are announced in advance and do not lead to a strange co-interim CEO situation.

It's possible he's sick. Who could know?

That sort of transition would be managed unambiguously. This is a firing.

> What's to say he doesn't want to simply enjoy life

News: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/02/intel-ceo-pat-gelsinger-is-o...

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger ousted by board

That "fabs will report to me" should be a tell that there is a lot of internal opposition...

Worse (for Intel) what can happen is Intel HP-isation - splits and sells.

But there is a lot of good news for them in cpu world: another B's granted, military buys Intel, new no-HT arch. And 80 bit memories like in Multics, can be true virtualisation on x86.

Even if x86 is dead Intel still have fabs - AMD can soon print in them :)

But that multigeneration refreshes are still a mistery - is it Intel's problem or maybe something else eg. simply someone have a some patent ? :>

He got fired, dawg. This is like being told that someone is sleeping with the fishes and concluding that the guy just finds lying in bed next to a bunch of sturgeon the most relaxing way to sleep.