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Maybe this is just the outside view talking, but it seems like a CEOs biggest function is to be the public face of the company. To take abuse and answer tough questions so the investors don't have to. This requires a fair bit of PR talent, and also the ability to withstand a lot of public hatred. Apparently that's worth a lot of money.

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To be fair, we can probably replace most of these with ChatGPT

> To be fair, we can probably replace most of these with ChatGPT

You joke, but I'm almost positive this would work.

I had a colleague many years ago who, while in business school, would frequently use speeches or emails from our CEO as the backbone of his essays, sometimes using them almost verbatim. I asked him once if he was worried about getting caught for plagiarism. His response was something along the lines of, "All executive communication is so much meaningless boilerplate corporate-speak that it's next to impossible to tell once person's work from the next". He eventually got his MBA and never did get called out for plagiarism.

CEOs have an army of people at their disposal to do the said “PR talent” stuff. They absolutely do not deserve what they get and they are not tech gods as media paints them to be. I’m sick of media defending CEOs instead common workers.

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