> A Harvard Business Review study of common traits among CEOs found that the leaders who rose to that position fastest were those who had a “catapult experience

> A Harvard Business Review study of common traits among CEOs found that the leaders who rose to that position fastest were those who had a “catapult experience”—a bold and potentially risky career move. Perhaps the same traits that lead to this type of bold action might also lead to very poor outcomes on a college campus. The next sentence calls Bay area programmers "dorks" who have never taken risk, but I'll take the first part at face value. I've been listening to the podcast "How I Built this with Guy Raz" where founders of companies talk about how they started/grew their successful business. It does seem like many of them either had a hard time with "regular work", or they were stuck in some job they didn't like so they decided to start a business. Many of them have college degrees, which goes against what this article is about though. The more I listen to these, the more I think that there is a "type" of person who would start a business and therefore become a CEO. I've met a few people in real life that gave me a similar vibe, and my company's founder/CEO is like this as well. I can't put my finger on why these people seem different to me, but they just seem to think about problems differently.