[cm2012]

As someone who has worked with many boards and execs, I cannot tell how wrong this way of looking at the world is.

Execs universally love working with people who maximize proactivity and strong opinions. The opposite of what you think.

[guappa]

> Execs universally love working with people who maximize proactivity and strong opinions.

Only if they share the same strong opinions.

[cm2012]

I hear, "You're the expert, we're paying you a lot, tell us what to do" often!

[guappa]

But what if what to do isn't what they want to do…

[__loam]

Yes we know execs are going to drink as much kool-aid as they need to to join this group of people and they'll probably love the process, especially when they're getting sweetheart liquidity deals earlier than everyone else at these firms.

I'm not really concerned with that. I'm more interested in the aggregate effect of putting a significant amount of the industry in the hands of a few ignorant twenty somethings and the small group of wealthy people from the bay area who are on all these boards. That is a frightening level of power concentrated in the hands of a small and anti-democratic structure.