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Are u/do u know any CEO's ?

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  • 15-02-2013 7:31pm
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    7 7 12
    Registered Users Posts: 185 ✭✭


    I know a lot of company CEO's are older like in their 40s/50s etc but it seems once you start doing it, you will always be on higher salaries and an executive business class lifestyle once you "know the ropes" so to speak. They just bounce from company to company, even across countries.

    The CEO of the company I work in got let go and less than 3 months later he's CEO of another company making €160,000/year. Does anyone know how to get into this? Where I work which is a finance company it would take forever and a whole lotta luck to become a MD/CEO/etc but I'm young (20s) and want to eventually become a CEO , might aswell start early!


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    Sky King
    Registered Users Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭Sky King


    I know a guy who has CEO as his job title on his linked in.

    He is a manager and minority shareholder in a company with about 5 employees.


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    Sh1tbag OToole
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,973 ✭✭✭Sh1tbag OToole


    Yes but the company has been teetering on the edge of bankrupcy for the past 6 years or more, still he manages to keep going. He drives a Mercedes SUV because its kind of a mandatory CEO vehicle and he talks all the going forward in the interim touch base talk.

    I'd hate the job to be honest. If I had a company and it got to a certain size I would demote myself because I don't want to be a pen pusher or a meeting goer and want to stick with the interesting technical stuff


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    Pottler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,073 ✭✭✭Pottler


    7 7 12 wrote: »
    I know a lot of company CEO's are older like in their 40s/50s etc but it seems once you start doing it, you will always be on higher salaries and an executive business class lifestyle once you "know the ropes" so to speak. They just bounce from company to company, even across countries.

    The CEO of the company I work in got let go and less than 3 months later he's CEO of another company making €160,000/year. Does anyone know how to get into this? Where I work which is a finance company it would take forever and a whole lotta luck to become a MD/CEO/etc but I'm young (20s) and want to eventually become a CEO , might aswell start early!
    Start your own company, make a few million and then appoint yourself CEO. Simple really.


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    Kettleson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,047 ✭✭✭Kettleson


    Psychopathic tendencies would be an advantage in that particular career path.


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    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    First you gotta join the masons, or the illuminati, or the stone cutters! They'll sort you out!


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    Tom_Cruise
    Closed Accounts Posts: 734 ✭✭✭Tom_Cruise


    I am CEO of my company, i earn about 10k a day or so


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    Kettleson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,047 ✭✭✭Kettleson


    Tom_Cruise wrote: »
    I am CEO of my company, i earn about 10k a day or so

    Did you send in your P60 Tom? You might have some beans to get back.


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    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    There are no CEOs in Ireland, here you are a POF.


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    hames
    Registered Users Posts: 295 ✭✭hames


    What's the difference between a CEO and a Managing Director?

    I'm a Secretary/ director of a company that I set up with a college classmate and we made a profit of about a tenner. Last I checked the CRO still hadn't folded us for failing to have submitted accounts, but any day now.

    Costs about a hundred quid to set up your own company. Getting cheaper in the future, I believe.


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    Czarcasm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    7 7 12 wrote: »
    I know a lot of company CEO's are older like in their 40s/50s etc but it seems once you start doing it, you will always be on higher salaries and an executive business class lifestyle once you "know the ropes" so to speak. They just bounce from company to company, even across countries.

    The CEO of the company I work in got let go and less than 3 months later he's CEO of another company making €160,000/year. Does anyone know how to get into this? Where I work which is a finance company it would take forever and a whole lotta luck to become a MD/CEO/etc but I'm young (20s) and want to eventually become a CEO , might aswell start early!


    €20 to the CRO and you can become a CEO, COO and Managing Director of your own company all in one! Probably best register somebody else for these titles though and yourself as an employee in case your company goes to the wall and the Revenue comes looking to be paid! :D


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    dd972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭dd972


    Warren Buffet refers to them as members of the lucky sperm club, enough said.


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    srsly78
    Registered Users Posts: 7,157 ✭✭✭srsly78


    Czarcasm wrote: »
    €20 to the CRO and you can become a CEO, COO and Managing Director of your own company all in one! Probably best register somebody else for these titles though and yourself as an employee in case your company goes to the wall and the Revenue comes looking to be paid! :D

    e20 only registers a trading name... You gotta splash the big bucks (e100) if you want to be a CEO.


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    c_man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,436 ✭✭✭c_man


    dd972 wrote: »
    Warren Buffet refers to them as members of the lucky sperm club, enough said.

    Nah go on, expand on it sure.


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    Pottler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,073 ✭✭✭Pottler


    I'm an MD, might even be a CEO, haven't checked lately(probably doubtful). I also know a lot of CEOs, of the genuine, squillionaire type, most are decent, intelligent people, with an ickle sliver of pure ice. You kind of have to be to get that far and stay there. The spoofers and gimps are usually more middle-stylee, the cnuts in a suit are clawing their way out of the lower MGT level and the delusional sharks are usually salesmen. I genuinely think it comes down to self regard and gravitas. I'd be lacking in both departments, luckily I make up for it in sheer brute will. I tend to get on with CEOs, usually because I make/save them a pile of money. Their doors are usually open to me, it's a perk of the job. They are usually fun to be around.


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    DebDynamite
    Registered Users Posts: 2,615 ✭✭✭DebDynamite


    No, but my Dad's the highest earning partner in KPMG.


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    BigFatGiant
    Registered Users Posts: 157 ✭✭BigFatGiant


    DebDynamite wrote: »
    No, but my Dad's the highest earning partner in KPMG.

    Don't you mean K P OM G !


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    Sh1tbag OToole
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,973 ✭✭✭Sh1tbag OToole


    BigFatGiant wrote: »
    Don't you mean K P OM G !

    Hoighest orning portner


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    Antar Bolaeisk
    Registered Users Posts: 3,091 ✭✭✭Antar Bolaeisk


    I know a couple of CEOs through work, some of quite large companies, but that's about it.


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    senorwipesalot
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,458 ✭✭✭senorwipesalot


    Pottler wrote: »
    I'm an MD, might even be a CEO, haven't checked lately(probably doubtful). I also know a lot of CEOs, of the genuine, squillionaire type, most are decent, intelligent people, with an ickle sliver of pure ice. You kind of have to be to get that far and stay there. The spoofers and gimps are usually more middle-stylee, the cnuts in a suit are clawing their way out of the lower MGT level and the delusional sharks are usually salesmen. I genuinely think it comes down to self regard and gravitas.
    Got it in one Pottler.
    The sliver of ice seems to be the common denominator in CEOs.


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    #21
    UCDVet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,894 ✭✭✭UCDVet


    I don't know how a CEO is different from a guy who runs a company. I know a few people with tiny businesses where they say they are 'CEO' - I've said it myself as a joke.

    Does it need to be a publicly traded company before the CEO is an appropriate title? Or is it just whatever you want it to be?


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    MadsL
    Registered Users Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    CEO is a bit of a Dot Com/Celtic Tiger affectation really isn't it. Managing Director somehow seems old-fashioned now.


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