Well, I think it would be pretty rare for someone to suddenly find themselves the CEO of a large company without first having spent many years working just as h

Well, I think it would be pretty rare for someone to suddenly find themselves the CEO of a large company without first having spent many years working just as hard at lower levels. And it would also be rare for someone to be hired as CEO if the board knew they were planning on leaving after a year or two (unless it was an interim position). Since the OP mentioned Matt Levine's Money Stuff, here's a fun little bit from today's newsletter [1]: > Every time you read about a workaholic billionaire and think “boy, not me, if I had a billion dollars I’d be on the beach,” the answer is always “well that’s why you don’t have a billion dollars.” If you have the characteristics that enable you to make a billion dollars, you don’t usually turn them off once you get there. [1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-02-03/amazon-wanted-some-tax-breaks https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-02-03/amazon...