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"Bizzare"? That's pretty much what I expected of Gabe. I don't imagine he has to work particularly hard. Most CEOs try to hide how much they don't do.
The thing isn't that they have constant work to do, but that they must be available for work at any time, for any reason. Some random and unpredictable crisis waking you up at 3am for the 5th night in a row? Sucks to be you.
Having known a number of CEOs over the years, they arent the ones waking up for those 3am calls unless it's a business shattering literally apocalyptic event.
They honestly shouldn't be the ones taking emergency calls either since most of the time they'll be in the way.
Well no shit I'm talking about issues which actually relate directly to their role.
If that's not an issue relating directly to their role I don't know what it.
The only reason they'd wake up 3AM for some crisis is if either the market is collapsing or their company is collapsing. Those things happening unexpectedly is something the majority of CEO-s will never experience. I guess it doesn't suck to be a CEO when the sucky thing almost never happen.
And the market is only open from 9:30-4. Not that steam is even publicly traded.
There are alternative markets that trade pretty much 24/7
Which each have their own groupings of companies traded. Foreign stock markets only matter if you're a trading firm.
Gabe Newell is not a usual CEO though.
He's definitely also not a "fixes the bug himself" CEO.
We can pretend he's different. I can freely admit that I like to think he's different. But no way in hell is he fixing any kind of problem, that arises in the middle of the night, himself.
There's no reason to idolize the man.
I'm not doing that, just saying it. There's no reason to idolize anything. Even idols. Antique Mediterranean was better for being as religiously pluralistic as rural China.
I've known and work with extremely powerful CEOs.
This couldn't be further from the truth.
They hire people to wake up at 3am for them.
There are plenty of non CEO jobs with similar requirements
Okay?
Do you even have a point?
Those don't pay remotely as much.
Sounds like your average IT infrastructure job.