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Meanwhile, Google's market cap has tripled during his tenure as CEO. Maybe being flashy and showy isn't all that important after all.
by _euac 5y ago
Meanwhile, Google's market cap has tripled during his tenure as CEO.
Maybe being flashy and showy isn't all that important after all.
- Lammy 5y agoIf the top priority is to satisfy Worthington's law, sure. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Worthington%27s_law https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Worthington%27s_law
- reaperducer 5y agoYou make the mistake of believing that market cap is the only or most important way to measure the success of a business. It isn't. Not even remotely.
- jedberg 5y agoSince he became CEO, the company has gone up 234%. The S&P500 has gone up 101%. But Microsoft went up 364%, Apple went up 320%, And Amazon went up 420%. So if you're just looking at market performance, while he outpaced the S&P500, he underperformed his biggest competitors.
- _euac 5y agoMeanwhile, Satya Nadella isn't flashy and Jeff Bezos hasn't been involved in any kind of keynote speech on anything related to Amazon in years. So my point stands: flashiness doesn't correlate with performance.