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?
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition
by Phelinofist on Thursday November 12, 2026 @01:28PM
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> 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
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Elon personally hired the first 3000 SpaceX employees- you don’t think that was a huge part of their success?
CEOs in large companies do not play a role like that.