It’s a weird dichotomy because you get the overachieving MBA types and the “my dad founded the company” types you’d expect. However you also get these unassuming types that just have undergrad business degrees from middling schools, but due to the dumb luck of being in the right place at the right time they end up with a CV that makes them attractive for the c suite and then it can snowball pretty fast. That’s what happened with my FIL, got a job in the early eighties in a bank, they stuck her in the computer banking department (which in those days was not where the hotshots were), but then the nineties roll around, the first big wave of tech startups, suddenly “banking plus computers” background is a hot commodity. Voila, she’s in the c suite.
It really is just networking. It’s why CEOs lose their jobs all the time or resign in disgrace, then they get picked up elsewhere. It’s called the old boy network
It’s absurd. All the companies I’ve worked for have had a sort of rotation of high level executives just staying for a few years and dipping. Back when we were in the office, some of these people would just walk around all day talking to interns and their buddies. Some days they would have a few meetings, but it’s all unfathomable horse shit
And they make it seem like these useless fucks are the glue holding companies together. It’s like a dumb little elite club where they convince all of the lessers that they’re very important people
How do I become CEO of something? It seems I would have excellent job security afterwards.
9/10 Nepo baby.
0.5 / 10 worked your way through corporate ladder
0.5 / 10 more lucky than a lightning strike or lotto win.
It’s a weird dichotomy because you get the overachieving MBA types and the “my dad founded the company” types you’d expect. However you also get these unassuming types that just have undergrad business degrees from middling schools, but due to the dumb luck of being in the right place at the right time they end up with a CV that makes them attractive for the c suite and then it can snowball pretty fast. That’s what happened with my FIL, got a job in the early eighties in a bank, they stuck her in the computer banking department (which in those days was not where the hotshots were), but then the nineties roll around, the first big wave of tech startups, suddenly “banking plus computers” background is a hot commodity. Voila, she’s in the c suite.
lol I worked with multiple overachieving MBA types with the same position as me. It really is mostly luck at the end of the day
It really is just networking. It’s why CEOs lose their jobs all the time or resign in disgrace, then they get picked up elsewhere. It’s called the old boy network
It’s absurd. All the companies I’ve worked for have had a sort of rotation of high level executives just staying for a few years and dipping. Back when we were in the office, some of these people would just walk around all day talking to interns and their buddies. Some days they would have a few meetings, but it’s all unfathomable horse shit
And they make it seem like these useless fucks are the glue holding companies together. It’s like a dumb little elite club where they convince all of the lessers that they’re very important people
In this case go to Harvard then do a roadtrip with your Harvard friends and get funding for doing the Truman show on the internet for some reason.