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> Probably thousands?

Lmfao. Hacker News, never change.

Certainly thousands of people could achieve similar or better, finding one of them just happens to be incredibly difficult and risky.

"Similar" on the scale of a company worth $2.4 trillion isn't negligible. Nor is "difficult" or "risky."

There's one person in the world with a proven track record of succeeding leading the world's most valuable company over a decade. This compensation is a drop in the bucket relative to even a single strategic mishap by a less qualified candidate.

I wouldn't want to be in charge of that headhunt, for sure.

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