> I automatically become CEO, CTO, etc., by starting my own company, and this is true of anyone who started their own companies, including the ones that are now BigCos. Founders don't need any specific qualifications or characteristics to merit their positions.
If you are involved in starting a company, you _get_ the position of CEO, CTO, etc essentially arbitrarily.
That's initially.
After a while you merit your position by not running the company into the ground, but instead making it succeed.
Often, that's a much more honest and brutal way of measuring merit, than any evaluation.
Big companies need the evaluation, because eg Google is not going to go bankrupt, if they have one lazy and incompetent VP.
Compare https://gwern.net/backstop
If you are involved in starting a company, you _get_ the position of CEO, CTO, etc essentially arbitrarily.
That's initially.
After a while you merit your position by not running the company into the ground, but instead making it succeed.
Often, that's a much more honest and brutal way of measuring merit, than any evaluation.
Big companies need the evaluation, because eg Google is not going to go bankrupt, if they have one lazy and incompetent VP.
Compare https://gwern.net/backstop