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Since 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.

Meanwhile, 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.

If the top priority is to satisfy Worthington's law, sure. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Worthington%27s_law

You 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.