Sounds like a couple of guys following their "guy" to his new pastures. A personal loyalty thing ("plus we'll all get rich while we do it").

As a outside skeptical observer, i just dont think executives are as valuable as individual contributors.

Certainly when there are exceptions they do drive innovation, so the myth making i observe is more like magic the gathering and opening up packs to find rare cards and trying to follow the current meta strategies and beat them.

Unfortunately, LLMs are really good at the same bullshit Steve Jobs was, and just as failable when taken confidently out of context and non appropiately assessed.