He nearly tripled VMware revenue since be became CEO.
Intel similarly recorded record smashing profits while destroying its R&D and tons of its future potential, and AMD and ARM are now a very serious problem for them.
Its entirely possible to post a few years of crazy profits while tanking the company.
I fear you'll have to back that up with something else. VMWare thrived under Gelsinger.
Your claim about running Vmare into the ground deserves a bit more explanation.
They probably are referring to VMware being displaced by the major three cloud providers.
This is my point. Gelsinger milked all the profit out of VMWare when it was a cash cow, but sacrificed VMWare's future. They were #1 in virtualization, setup to dominate the cloud. Not only did they let it go, their partnerships made it EASIER to migrate to competitor CSPs.