alt Hacker News> Jensen has created more shareholder value than nearly any human on earth.
Nonsense. Nvidia's employees created that value, not Jensen. Jensen personally is all but certainly responsible for almost none of the value created, just like in every other company. CEO worship is absurd.
Like it's an extremely common sentiment when working for a large company to look at the SVP or CEO and go "that person is a dumbass, everyone in charge is a dumbass". Yet when looking at other companies somehow we forget about that and put the companies success on the CEO or top level execs. Instead of remembering "no, it's probably the small army below them figuring out how to manage upwards to prevent the idiot in charge from tanking everything"
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Those employees didn’t create it when a huge number of them worked at AMD, Apple, Qualcomm, Intel, or TI.
It took the corporate structure and top-down direction decision ATTRIBUTABLE TO JENSEN to allow them to work so productively together.
Leadership matters. Labor Talent is only able to operate at 10% effectiveness with shitty leaders in place.
I agree that CEO worship is absurd but it’s a big stretch to say they are responsible for none of the value. Jensen AND the employees. And he probably created a disproportionate amount of that value compared to the average IC, I don’t think that’s in question. But is he responsible for most of it, or even 10% of it? Unlikely.
So fire all CEOs, let employees run the company then. Blind CEO hatred is equally stupid.
This sort of empty bitterness is a very pernicious thing. It reads as knowledge / experience, but really it’s nothing more than angry drivel. It doesn’t say anything that hasn’t been said before a million times.
You're right, it takes a company to deliver a value. With that said, you are *seriously* underestimating how hard it is to organize and run a large company. Jensen is not perfect by any means, and I don't even particularly like him. I just hate this anti-billionaire narrative being thrown around a lot lately that leaders don't matter.
Yes, this cult of personality I find completely insane. Mostly the egotists get in the way of the technical people making progress.
> Jensen personally is all but certainly responsible for almost none of the value created
That's a very limited view of value creation. Have you ever lead a team of people? Coached someone? Raised a child? Written a technical architecture?
A lot of people play crucial roles in a company. HR, accounting, leadership, PM's, engineers, support, etc. All of them contribute to the value creation.
If you've ever been in a company with poor leadership and one with great leadership, you'd see the impact of it on everyone working there and on the value being created.