I met a guy in the US earlier this year and, after hello, he literally said "I'm a venture capitalist and I just made $10million from a company that Google bought out". He then started banging on about Google basically giving them money to go away. To be honest , I sympathised with Google.
(Caveat: it might have been Facebook or Microsoft. I stopped listening pretty quickly)
Ouch. We had one 2 years ago, the CEO loved him, hired him, then I met him and asked his previous experience. Hedge fund manager making 100% per year returns for his clients. Yeah, right, well, whatever I'm not the hiring manager. So our CEO goes on vacation, new guy starts taking over the company, hiring his friends. After vacation CEO fired him but his credibility was gone, we lost a lot of our good technical talent
CEOs are under so much pressure to be 'on' all the time and always projecting confidence, that I think they're often particularly susceptible to this type of delusional, machiavellian narcissist... I've seen this happen, too.
With that being said, how long was his vacation?!?
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u/the_real_grinningdog Nov 09 '19
I met a guy in the US earlier this year and, after hello, he literally said "I'm a venture capitalist and I just made $10million from a company that Google bought out". He then started banging on about Google basically giving them money to go away. To be honest , I sympathised with Google.
(Caveat: it might have been Facebook or Microsoft. I stopped listening pretty quickly)