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Leaders come and go; companies rise and fall. In business, change is the constant.

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Leaders come and go; companies rise and fall. In business, change is the constant. A version of this post first appeared on TKer.co Nothing lasts forever…
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  • Cook had incredibly big shoes to fill in 2011 when he stepped in for visionary leader Steve Jobs, and he delivered.

    60% confidence

  • Apple is arguably the epitome of what shareholders hope for when it comes to leadership transitions working out well.

    60% confidence

  • Under Cook's leadership Apple grew from ~$350B market cap to $4 trillion (>1,000% increase) and annual revenue nearly quadrupled from $108B in FY2011 to over $416B in FY2025.

    60% confidence

  • Nobody is irreplaceable; Tim Cook proved this by successfully succeeding Steve Jobs at Apple.

    60% confidence

  • Berkshire Hathaway will not find another Ajit Jain.

    60% confidence

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Apple Podcasts · market cap4000 USD
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High-profile departures at top AI labs — Brad Lightcap's exit from OpenAI and an unnamed researcher's departure from Alphabet/Google that triggered a share-price drop — are surfacing talent retention as a market risk factor even as hyperscalers pour record capital into AI infrastructure. The reaction shows investors treating key-person risk at frontier AI labs as material to valuation, a new fragility layered onto an otherwise bullish AI-driven capex cycle.
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Broadcom Inc.
Both facts report EPS for Broadcom Inc. for the same fiscal period (Q1 2026) observed on the same date (2026-02-01). However, they report conflicting values: 1.5 USD per share vs 2.05 USD per share. This is a 37% difference for the identical metric and time period, not a value change over time.
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