You think he hired everyone personally?

CEOs in large companies do not play a role like that.

He founded the company. Everyone there is either hired by him or hired by someone he hired.

If the origin of the people who created value is the metric, aren't his parents and ancestors those who truly are responsible for creating all that shareholder value?

I prefer the view that the engineers that made GPUs have a bigger hand in the value creation.

Post hoc ergo propter hoc, eh?

> Everyone there is either hired by him or hired by someone he hired

If you think about that for 2 seconds you'll see that this is just wrong?

Elon personally hired the first 3000 SpaceX employees- you don’t think that was a huge part of their success?

> Those employees didn’t create it when a huge number of them worked at AMD, Apple, Qualcomm, Intel, or TI.

I agree: we must do everything we possibly can to aggrandize the already wealthy and powerful. The glory must accumulate in their account, and the less that goes to their subordinates, the better.

I mean Jensen even said that he does not mind the California billionaire* tax. To believe that CEOs and Founders are not replaceable is hyperbole but so is to believe that they are totally replaceable. NVIDIA clearly has a moat and are the belle of the ball, of the world economy

You can’t convince these people. A large portion of the population is hardwired (by DNA) to be subordinate and hierarchical, for better or worse. Probably best to simply let them believe in Superheroes.

This tendency to credit an entire technological breakthrough to the top of an org chart is such a bizarre cliche from a systems perspective. Breakthroughs are not conceived from whole cloth within the corner offices of isolated autocracies; they are the product of horizontal networks of social capital as engineers continually circulate across firms.

Besides, individual contributors aren't incentivized to innovate insofar as we're not structurally positioned to capture a windfall.

I recognize the narrative that an army of world-class engineers is essentially inert until an executive visionary breathes purpose into them, but that's a structural property of the firm. It's a choice to route all surplus through the board and major shareholders, and to starve out any innovation that happens outside of those venues.

Perhaps research nVidia and Huang a bit more before deciding general rules apply to specific cases.

lol