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That's what I'm trying to understand. His educational background was in Physics/Nuclear Engineering so he's obviously a smart guy, and he was CEO/Chairman of Cadence for 15 years, but other than that his 40+ year career has most been in VC and being on the boards of an incredibly large number of companies.

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>he was CEO/Chairman of Cadence for 15 years, but other than that

Oh, so he's only been leading one of the handful of companies making the full software suite for all stages of silicon design and simulation for 15 years, no biggie.

You're aware what kind of company Cadence is, are you?

I know, right? John Sculley ran the, at the time, most successful computer maker, Apple, for 10 years. Brian Krzanich ran the, at the time, largest chip maker, Intel, for 6 years. They were the authorities; their decision-making and abilities running businesses in those industries must have been impeccable to do so for so long.

Did you know that Jensen Huang has been running Nvidia for 30 years? Anyone can pick examples to prove their point.

Thank you for agreeing with me that “years experience in industry” has numerous examples both ways for efficacy and is thus insufficient support for snide assertions of fitness for position as the person I was responding to was making.

The entire point of the comment I was responding to was that Lip-Bu Tan doesn't have the experience in the industry, hence the snideness.

Whether he'd be a good chairman given his experience in the industry is a discussion that we can have once people understand which experience he actually has.

They may have just agreed to get Intel to this point and hand it off.

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