CEO takes new hire out to business lunch, makes wildly out-of-touch comments: ''He basically asked me to make him a billionaire'

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Aug 16, 2024 8:00 AM EDT

When you start working at a new company, your first interaction with the head boss in charge is likely to leave a lasting impression. Whether or not that impressing is a good or bad one is likely up to how self-aware your new boss is.

Here, we have a CEO who took his new hire out to lunch not long after he started in the new position. In theory, this is the sign of a kind and attentive CEO who wants to form an individualized relationship with the folks working under him. Unfortunately, that assumption was far too generous. What ended up transpiring was a self-obsessed narcissistic dude who was less concerned with inspiring his new employee and much more concerned with how his new hire could help him. Note that we said "help him" and not "help the company." 

Keep scrolling below for the full summary of how this so-called "business lunch" went. For more stories like this, check out this post about an employee who got cheated out of a much-deserved raise.

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    Had lunch with the CEO and he basically asked me to make him a billionaire. His words fell flat to me.
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    Started a new gig a month ago. I'm a Controller in a PE backed high growth awesome industry.
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    Went out to lunch with the CEO. He was trying to pep talk me and get me excited for the role as their last Controller didn't cut it and killed morale in their accounting and finance department.
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    He essentially said...'look, you can see the documents. I made 170M in the sale to PE. But I'm still here. I have the drive
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    and determination to exit the next time as a Billionaire. And you're key to getting me there. I hope you're excited'.
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    Was that a weird conversation to anyone else? I wanted to say something but in the end.
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    I'm just like 'I'm totally onboard with the mission and your leadership at the organization'
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    I've heard people gripe about making the rich richer, but he literally asked me to help him do it. Now I really don't want to. Meh. Rant over. Wish I could retire.
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    shapeoft... . 18h ago I know it might have fallen on deaf ears, but imagine if you said to him "why don't you focus on making your employees rich as you are already a multi-millionnaire?
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    StolenWi... 18h ago • They really think making them obscenely rich makes us feel like part of a great cause. The revolution can't come too soon.
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    • • 18h ago Edited 18 I guess he revealed what the company mission was is for him to hoard all of the profits to himself while leaving you dried up. Don't expect a raise anytime soon.
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    • Due_See... 18h ago Should've asked for a percentage upon completion of this goal.
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    Western... 18h ago The part that is strange to me is the very wealthy person is motivated by money but somehow they think everyone else in the company should be motivated for other reasons.
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    making someone else money isn't really a motivator this is why we get paid money too.
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    • SpicyGh... 18h ago Tell him you will make him a billionaire if he makes you a millionaire.
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    spiralen... • 18h ago I had an interview with a CEO for an engineering role. I asked him about long term strategy for the company and he said "to grow as fast as possible and make as much money as we can"
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    Talk about weak sauce answers. I went through 7 interviews to talk to this dude whose answers to my questions sounded like cartoon character ceo answers for children.
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    He decided to pass on my candidacy. I was not pleased, but sounds like I dodged a bullet. Why do these people get paid millions of dollars while giving answers like that when I have to spent
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    5 hours demonstrating that I can write basic code and do toy system designs that need to scale to every human on earth
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    being a concurrent user? Why does he get to override every other engineer I spoke with because of his "gut feelings"
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    e.g. unexamined biases? Also why did I have to interview with him at all? Isn't supposed to be busy doing CEO and leaving technical hires to technical managers?
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