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> CEOs are professional communicators who have reached the highest level of the craft That's kind of silly, isn't it? Altman is a college dropout who has barel
by bmitc 3y ago
> CEOs are professional communicators who have reached the highest level of the craft
That's kind of silly, isn't it? Altman is a college dropout who has barely ever worked and somehow fell upward into CEO positions very quickly.
His level of communication in talks and interviews is terrible, so I am genuinely confused where all this mystique comes from. He sounds like a college student being asked and talking about management.
It seems that if you have any title or personal relationship attached to you, people will listen to anything you say, and even say things or just conjure up an ora for you.
- threeseed 3y agoAltman founded Loopt. Not sure how you can say he fell into the CEO position there. Also at the time he was at YC it was a significantly smaller and less prestigious incubator.
- bmitc 3y ago> Loopt, Inc. was an American company ... which provided a service for smartphone users to share their location selectively with other people. Yea, impressive stuff. I'm sure that gave him a lot of experience that led to being one of the few "professional communicators who have reached the highest level of the craft".
- famouswaffles 3y agoThat was not the point of that coment. You act like he just mysteriously found himself in executive positions when every company he's headed for a significant duration was one he founded. If you didn't even know that then you obviously know very little about him and couldn't even be bothered to do any research at all. This is a simple wikipedia search. So why are you so bothered about someone you know nothing about ?
- dr_dshiv 3y agoWatch him at Dev Day.
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- bmitc 3y agoYawn.
- lebean 3y agoYeah I'm not convinced either. No doubt that good communication is a strength in a good CEO. But the only thing I can confidently say is an essential part of being a CEO is that they are blame-sinks for executive decisions, particularly their own.
- runeofdoom 3y agoIf you start thinking that CEOs aren't special and unique, then you might start thinking they don't need to be paid 350 times what the average employee does.
- bmitc 3y agoYes.
- WendyTheWillow 3y agoThen you must not think the job is difficult or impactful, as well.
- woooooo 3y agoThat doesn't necessarily follow. Lots of people have difficult jobs. Line cooks have to make priority decisions under high pressure, and it's impactful.
- WendyTheWillow 3y agoA line cook is comparably difficult and impactful a job as a fortune 500 CEO? Say more.
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- willis936 3y agoIf we concede that CEOs deserve their place in society then we can claim that we live in a meritocracy, the world is fair, and we deserve the good things that happen to us. It's a very comfortable thought.
- famouswaffles 3y agoall the companies altman has CEO'd are companies he co-founded. Not sure how you "fall upwards" into that.