>f you want to be at the table, you need to be in the cool kids club While this is true, the fact of the matter, is people like to do business with people they

>f you want to be at the table, you need to be in the cool kids club While this is true, the fact of the matter, is people like to do business with people they trust and they tend to trust people like them. I don't think it is as nefarious as you make it sound, but it is a problem because it implies it isn't based on merit, and while there are circumstances that it isn't, a lot of it is. They are where they are based on skills and experiences, but the barriers to entry are high because Fortune 50 companies aren't just handing these jobs out to people they can't trust.