cliveo-
It helps when your board are friendly, the company is worth billions, and you're outperforming everyone's portfolio.
The place we went for dinner after... fine dining and we hired a private room, but 2 people had to go to the airport and so we were afraid we weren't going to hit the min spend of $5K for the room... result, the investor (who was paying for this) asked for the wine list. The wine we drank was more than my monthly income.
Also went to somewhere called French Laundry which was pretty nice.
Hard to get a burger in Napa Valley though... even breakfast was fine dining and it gets old very fast.
I still don't know how I came to be here... but I'm 2nd to the CTO in this company of 550 engineers. All of the above is succession planning, exposure to the CTO role and to this level of investor and customer.
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Velocio
I'd like to announce that my lifestyle has become ridiculous and I'm not getting in this thread at all... something is clearly wrong with the internet.
In the past month I've had 3 business class flights, and 1 first class... all on air miles. I've stayed in 2 x 5 star resorts, enjoyed a board meeting, an SLT offsite, gone to Palo Alto, Napa Valley, driven a few supercars. Been invited to several actual golf courses (is that what they're called?). Stayed at a mansion in a vineyard with this mind blowing cellar (attached), and a library that had a hidden room behind a bookshelf with a metal briefcase full of cash (WTF!). This is before the "oh yeah the private banking with NatWest is better than HSBC, and you wouldn't want Coutts as you actually have to go in and talk to them rather than just handle everything over the phone, I've got my own account manager now who sorts everything and has just set up my Cayman Islands account".
I dunno... obvious imposter at levels of society I should never be allowed to access.
On one hand... WTF, can someone pass a grenade? On the other hand... oh, the view is nice up here... but still, grenades please.