While he may be a co-winner he’s not exactly a household name of a ‘Nobelist’, and certainly in our sort of online circles he’s increasingly famous for non-Nobel things; OP is being sarcastic:
In the US, on the other hand, CEOs and executive directors make most of the investment decisions. They might read magazines saying that “cloud and blockchain and IoT” will be important, and talk to other executives at conferences who agree with that view, and then make a statement saying their company “will be a trend leader for emerging technologies including cloud computing and blockchain”. Then they delegate the technical details to a guy, who hires a consulting firm, who finds someone who social consensus says is probably knowedgeable.
While he may be a co-winner he’s not exactly a household name of a ‘Nobelist’, and certainly in our sort of online circles he’s increasingly famous for non-Nobel things; OP is being sarcastic:
That make sense. If I were going for sarcasm I would have said Kary Mullis.