Murthy snuck in at a strange time. He was well-liked by BK, who championed him from the start. He supposedly oversaw many orgs and had tons of face time with employees in BUMs. Then something happened and he was sidelined. Maybe the BOD pushed him down a bit due to his mouthy comments about Intel in the press. Once BK was pushed out, Murthy was the obvious engineering-led choice, but he didn’t make the cut. We went with the triple CFO approach - CEO, CFO and Chairman CFO, to run the company.
Murthy has been sidelined and is now ‘vesting in peace’ as they call it. At some point in the very near future, he will announce he is leaving with his unworthy 45M in stock or whatever. It’s Iike he was never here.