the ground has already been laid for that claim. i also think it is designed to secure the primacy of the ex-ceo.
i see a new guy with a tighter notion of how you bring a product to market, which goes all the way from product creation and design to launch and market formation.
i give the other chap credit for the underlying spaghetti and standards engagement. so wave under his leadership contributed to the creation of an environment and the potential for an enterprise.
there's some credit in each skill. but wave under the previous regime was not building a company. it was capturing a claim to prescience. and selling paper on the strength of it.