undefined | Better HN

0 pointspjerem1y ago0 comments

> Most top level legendary CEOs, could. Zuckerberg, Gates, Jack Welch, Edison, Larry Page, Sergey Brin all worked their way up from the floor to the corner office.

Sure but the tech CEOs success is an anomaly : most if not all the people you cited were able to get to the top because the context was highly exceptional (because personal computing and internet were a total greenfield).

(Also not to mention that, beyond those exceptional circumstances, most of them were already coming from pretty rich families)

Most companies in the world are not ran like this.

0 comments

kamaal1y ago

I mean if you are selling detergent, paint or soap its a different argument there.

But even in that case you still have to be darn good at distribution, financials, marketing etc.

You can't exactly dictate things cluelessly at a abstract level like managers in software do.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

0 comments

kamaal1y ago

I mean if you are selling detergent, paint or soap its a different argument there.

But even in that case you still have to be darn good at distribution, financials, marketing etc.

You can't exactly dictate things cluelessly at a abstract level like managers in software do.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse