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Depends on your size threshhold. For anything beyond 100 bn in market cap certainly. There is some relatively large companies with a similar flair though, like Cohere and obviously Mistral.



Well, they're not AI companies, necessarily, or at least not only AI companies, but the big hardware firms tend to have engineers at the helm. That includes Nvidia, AMD, and Intel. (Counterpoint: Apple)


Counter counter point: apples hardware division has been doing great work in the last 5 years, it’s their software that seems to have gone off the rails (in my opinion).


I'm not sure how this is a counter-point to the allegation that Tim Cook isn't really an engineer.


Tim Cook is probably the greatest CFO any company could know. But Apple's capital is vastly squandered with Tim as CEO.


COO, not CFO. He is a supply chain/manufacturing/operations guy.




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