Sounds more and more like he had a "me" mindset, not a long-term one. Not exactly mind blowing that the board wouldn't love that.

Yeah the whole “long term mindset” idea is definitely just hagiography done with the benefit of hindsight. Indistinguishable from luck empirically!

	▲	NetMageSCW a day ago \| parent [-]
		He spent a decade supporting CUDA despite much criticism and share price losses only to ultimately be proven right. If that isn’t a long term bet, what is?

kortilla 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Those are not mutually exclusive. If your vision is to run a company for as long as you are cogent, that’s still a long-term mindset.