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Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by fennecfoxy on Thursday November 12, 2026 @10:58AM (#50469514)
You think he hired everyone personally?

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

Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by djaro on Thursday November 12, 2026 @12:36PM (#50471057)
He founded the company. Everyone there is either hired by him or hired by someone he hired.
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by antiframe on Thursday November 12, 2026 @12:59PM (#50471399)
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.

Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by rexpop on Thursday November 12, 2026 @01:05PM (#50471495)
Post hoc ergo propter hoc, eh?
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by Phelinofist on Thursday November 12, 2026 @01:28PM (#50471882)
> 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?

Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by NetMageSCW on Thursday November 12, 2026 @01:35PM (#50471982)
Elon personally hired the first 3000 SpaceX employees- you don’t think that was a huge part of their success?