Nah, chances are the guy was born rich. These kind of management positions in Germany are reserved for rich people. In fact according to his bio it appears that he went from doing a PhD in IT to being head of a department at SAP and then a few years later he is CTO. That's connections and nepotism, and you don't get those connections without being already rich.

if you make 100k a year that payout is 71 years worth of your wages. absurd.

average worker will never reach that kind of retirement payout. early or late

CxO get way too much

"Should be" is a joke, right?

You can pull off over $200k/yr and never touch the principal. If you can let it sit for a decade it will ~double in terms of purchasing to just a hair under $14M. Another ten years on top of that and you're retiring at 58 (still "early") with $27.5M in today's-dollars purchasing power.

Personally I'd probably just live off $200k starting today but there's a hell of an argument for retiring before 50 and still having ~$350k/yr in purchasing power.

What would you do with that amount of money at that age?