> How many other employees at Apple (the ones we're comparing how minuscule their pay compared to the CEO) can run the company as well as he has? Vision, implem

> How many other employees at Apple (the ones we're comparing how minuscule their pay compared to the CEO) can run the company as well as he has? Vision, implementation, everything. That's a good question! I'd speculate that, if we could re-run history with different CEO's for Apple, some might do worse than the current-CEO while some might do better. The huge, undeniable advantage a sitting-CEO has over their hypothetical competition is that the sitting-CEO was the one who got the chance to try. Not to deny that a sitting-CEO had to do stuff to get selected. But if their main advantage over those who weren't selected was that they managed to get selected, then presumably we'd have to credit them with having won the selection-process, not with out-performing their hypothetical competition at the job.