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This shouldn't be the standard for anybody. It's insanely wasteful and polluting. We should call out this guy and anybody else doing it. Absolutely ridiculous,

This shouldn't be the standard for anybody. It's insanely wasteful and polluting. We should call out this guy and anybody else doing it. Absolutely ridiculous, it would be far cheaper and better for the environment to pay for relocation and arguably C-suites don't even need the help. Don't want to move? Then you're the wrong person for the job.

johannes1234321 2y ago
Or just move the headquarters. ;)
brandall10 2y ago
The problem is the perception of a very rare skillset - ie. being a CEO that did x/y/z at companies in a similar space that the board would like to acquire to achieve for their own company. If they can accomplish the same, the value of that far exceeds the cost, environmental impact, and public perception of something like this. You might start with 5 or so candidates and then whittle it down to 1 or 2 that are the right person for a job. These people are already wealthy with all that goes along with it and the idea of relocating could be a hard ask. From a successful CEO's perspective, it's probably much easier for them to land another gig that caves to their demands than the other way around. At this comp level you could say it's similar to a sports star that gets traded to another team, and it is in a way, but that's part of what comes along with being someone like that... in the span of 20 years they may have to uproot their life 3-4x. Their career even starts off like that, where they get selected to a team and boom, they have to move to somewhere they may have never even visited before their life even gets somewhat calcified by having generational wealth.
paulcole 2y ago
> It's insanely wasteful and polluting. It’s pretty clear (by looking at actions, not words) that nobody cares about being insanely wasteful and polluting. Everybody believes some other person is being insanely wasteful and polluting but their lifestyle isn’t as bad so they don’t have to change.
- goosedragons 2y ago
  I think it's pretty clear that commuting 1000 miles by private jet very easily puts you in the top 0.1% of individual polluters even by Western standards. They emit like 2 tonnes of CO_2 in an hour and the average American does like 14 tonnes in an entire year. So even if only goes to Seattle once a week that's like 8 tonnes (assuming 500 MPH flying speed, roundtrip). Every two weeks he's emitting what an average American does, JUST COMMUTING.
  - paulcole 2y ago
    Ok phew, for a second there I thought you were going to suggest that the average American made changes in their lives to reduce their environmental impact.

johannes1234321 2y ago

Or just move the headquarters. ;)

brandall10 2y ago

The problem is the perception of a very rare skillset - ie. being a CEO that did x/y/z at companies in a similar space that the board would like to acquire to achieve for their own company. If they can accomplish the same, the value of that far exceeds the cost, environmental impact, and public perception of something like this. You might start with 5 or so candidates and then whittle it down to 1 or 2 that are the right person for a job. These people are already wealthy with all that goes along with it and the idea of relocating could be a hard ask. From a successful CEO's perspective, it's probably much easier for them to land another gig that caves to their demands than the other way around. At this comp level you could say it's similar to a sports star that gets traded to another team, and it is in a way, but that's part of what comes along with being someone like that... in the span of 20 years they may have to uproot their life 3-4x. Their career even starts off like that, where they get selected to a team and boom, they have to move to somewhere they may have never even visited before their life even gets somewhat calcified by having generational wealth.

paulcole 2y ago

> It's insanely wasteful and polluting. It’s pretty clear (by looking at actions, not words) that nobody cares about being insanely wasteful and polluting. Everybody believes some other person is being insanely wasteful and polluting but their lifestyle isn’t as bad so they don’t have to change.

goosedragons 2y ago
I think it's pretty clear that commuting 1000 miles by private jet very easily puts you in the top 0.1% of individual polluters even by Western standards. They emit like 2 tonnes of CO_2 in an hour and the average American does like 14 tonnes in an entire year. So even if only goes to Seattle once a week that's like 8 tonnes (assuming 500 MPH flying speed, roundtrip). Every two weeks he's emitting what an average American does, JUST COMMUTING.
- paulcole 2y ago
  Ok phew, for a second there I thought you were going to suggest that the average American made changes in their lives to reduce their environmental impact.