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3. Shouldn't I be a CTO by now? What a failure!

Compared to how many billion people on earth?

no compared to a pool of peers that is measured in the tens of thousands(if i'm being generous). in that case it genuinely becomes a case of "you fucked up at this point in your career and that person didn't"

it genuinely becomes a case of "you fucked up at this point in your career and that person didn't"

Of you know, the peers are tens of thousands (including people out of good schools and such), but the positions are like a few hundred or thousand, so statistically you're far less likely to be in that position than to not be.

The key is that even if nobody had "screwed up", there would still be fewer CTO/CEOs that people qualified similarly for that job.

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