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Seriously, though, what do CEOs actually do? How can one person (totally hypothetically) be the CEO of a car company and a rocket company at the same time, but spend all his time doing drugs, gaming, and destroying democratic institutions? What value does that add to the company? Or, say Walmart fired its CEO and didn't replace him? How long would it take customers to notice, and what would they notice, versus firing store employees with an equivalent amount of compensation?
You missed some companies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk
No way he puts in much time on any of those.
I hear tell that several of those companies have entire departments solely dedicated just to distract Musk with bullshit when he visits, so he doesn't attempt to do any "work".
Musk showing up to perform work is how we get things like "Human eyes don't have LIDAR so a Tesla doesn't need it either".
How terrible it must be to have to actively run interference to keep the CEO from breaking the company.