He's also 63. Has plenty of money to survive the rest of his life. Has eight grandchildren. There's so much more to life than business. What's to say he doesn't want to simply enjoy life with more connection and community to loved ones around him?
I don’t know much about this guy but it’s reasonable to assume that any C-level exec will hold on to the position for dear life until they are forced out.
I don't know. Frank Slootman's retirement from Snowflake earlier this year was certainly not celebrated by any significant stakeholders. I'd imagine at some point someone like Frank realizes that they are worth more than Tim Cook, they consider that they're in their mid-60s, and they decide the remaining time they have on earth might be better spent in other ways.
Every person in the workforce, no matter how ambitious or how senior, is forced into the calculus of money and power vs. good years remaining. I expect the rational ones will select the balance point for themselves.
The Juggling Act: Bringing Balance to Your Faith, Family, and Work
https://www.amazon.com/Juggling-Act-Bringing-Balance-Family/...
News: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/02/intel-ceo-pat-gelsinger-is-o...
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger ousted by board
Worse (for Intel) what can happen is Intel HP-isation - splits and sells.
But there is a lot of good news for them in cpu world: another B's granted, military buys Intel, new no-HT arch. And 80 bit memories like in Multics, can be true virtualisation on x86.
Even if x86 is dead Intel still have fabs - AMD can soon print in them :)
But that multigeneration refreshes are still a mistery - is it Intel's problem or maybe something else eg. simply someone have a some patent ? :>