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The answer isn't quite technically correct. The absolute quickest path is to incorporate a company and then make yourself the CEO.
by ajeet_dhaliwal 10y ago
The answer isn't quite technically correct. The absolute quickest path is to incorporate a company and then make yourself the CEO.
- auganov 10y agoThey're only looking at companies with 200+ employees in their data (which is the right thing to do given what "being an executive" means to most people).
- vonnik 10y agoFor most of the world, being CEO means being CEO of an established company rather than a startup. And really, incorporating a company and making yourself CEO doesn't amount to much. There's a lot of work to do before the title means anything. And much of that work dovetails with the point made by the author of the article: CEOs need to know a lot about a lot of different things.
- StillBored 10y agoI came here to say this, but also to add, that the fastest way of becoming a fortune 500 CEO, is to already be one. Although, if you do manage to grow your company to a fair size, these days you might be able purchase a company (via a ton of leverage) with some name recognition cook the books for a few quarters and then jump to a bigger fish. By the time anyone notices you can claim your golden parachute and retire into politics.