I'll say! Real CEOs should be 14 years old, like Ben Casnocha back when. (And yes, his company, Comcate, is a real company with employees and everything.) Th

I'll say! Real CEOs should be 14 years old, like Ben Casnocha back when. (And yes, his company, Comcate, is a real company with employees and everything.) Though I do agree with the general principle - it's why I decided that the title of Research Fellow at the Singularity Institute was more honorable, even though I could easily get something with "Director" in it. But there really is a flipside; not everyone gets the countersignalling. I met with a Congressperson once who told me that if I wanted to meet with Congresspeople, I should have gotten a bigger title - the phrasing was something along the lines of "Executive Directors get into the office, Research Fellows wait outside" (said in a friendly and helpful way). Similarly, at a gathering of VCs, someone said to me afterward: "When you introduced yourself as a Research Fellow, I thought you were just a scientist." I guess in the larger world, people really do go around judging by titles, even if from in here it seems like obviously easily fakeable fluff.