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If You Want To Be a CEO Become An Engineer First - How Money Works

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Tim Cook the CEO of apple was awarded 853 MILLION dollars in total compensation for his work in 2021.

Mr Tim Apple wasn’t even the biggest earner last year, Rivians CEO Robert Scaringe took home two point three billion dollars in compensation and the one and only Elon Musk was awarded more than ten billion dollars in Tesla Options.

Perhaps these two are a little more deserving because they were the founders or very early personal investors in highly risky companies utilising unproven technology. But most CEO’s didn’t take such personal risk and many are still enjoying nine figure salaries.

This isn’t another video to complain about how unfair it is that the average fortune 500 CEO now earning more than 324 times the median employee at their company, we have heard it all before and it doesn’t look like its going to change any time soon no matter how much the internet complains about it.

Now would be a good time to remember the age old anecdote, if you can’t beat them, join them.

So it’s time to learn How Money Works and get yourself a step by step guide on landing a job as an egregiously overcompensated corporate fat cat CEO

#howmoneyworks #ceo

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