[code_biologist]

Those CEOs are great examples, because they show the operative power networks are things like being a Brahmin or a McKinsey alum. I see less evidence for power networks based on race, or those power networks are doing less.

[hollerith]

> operative power networks are things like being a Brahmin

What evidence do you have that Sundar or Satya used any power network to progress in their career?

Could it not be that being a Brahmin in India was not all that promising to an ambitious young Indian man and in response he decided to start fresh in another country where he had very little in the way of useful network connections?

[RestlessMind]

> operative power networks are things like being a Brahmin

eh, what? Why would US corporate culture give a shit about Hindu castes? Google and Microsoft boards appointed Sundar and Satya, but I don't think those boards could tell a Brahmin from a non-Brahmin.

[myroon5]

seems myopic to focus on final promotions in decades-long world-class careers