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Huh? In most developed and developing countries you can just go and start a company and become the CEO in a few weeks at most. In the US just go and make an LLC and you can call yourself a CEO. Do you not have any friends who tried to start a company? Have you never worked at a startup? I honestly find this perspective to be bizarre. I have plenty of friends who've founded failed startups. I've worked at a few failed startups. I've even worked at startups that ended up turning into middling companies.

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A failed CEO is not a CEO, just as a failed mkdir command does not actually create a directory! Anyone can call themselves anything they want. You can also call yourself the queen of France! Just say or type the words.

I'm talking about the difference between filling out some government form, and the real social power of being the executive of a functioning company.

So like how big of a functioning company? Does a Series A startup CEO count? Series B? Series C? We need to be more precise about these things. Are you only looking at the CEOs of Big Tech publicly traded companies?

Big enough to peddle broken AI software to billions of people. The entire subject of this thread.

It feels unpleasant to me to respond to you because I feel that you aren't really interested in answering my questions or fielding a different point of view as much as you are just interested in stating your own point of view repeatedly with emotion. If you are not interested in responding to me in good faith I would feel better if we stopped the thread here.

To help me steelman your argument, you want to scope this discussion to CEOs that produce AI assisted products consumed by billions of users? To me that sounds like only the biggest of big techs, like Meta maybe? (Shopify for example has roughly 5M DAUs last I checked.) Again if you aren't interested in entertaining my point of view, this can absolutely be the last post in this thread.

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