I'm not sure if you're being facetious. The board of directors role is to look after the shareholders' interests. A good board is exactly that - the representatives of the shareholders.

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monideas a day ago | parent [-]

And in this case they fired a CEO who created more shareholder value than almost any person in human history and they didn’t fire him for declining performance.

So this just proves my point.

	▲	hgomersall 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Shareholder interests are not solely financial, and the board does not need to justify their actions to anyone except the shareholders.