Just a buncha frat rats.
The Boeing Corporation - started by a serial entrepeneur from Wisconsin, looking for a way to make his timber valuable - is now run by a Lawyer named McNerney from Yale who can’t tell you the back end of an airplane from his back end.
A polite way of putting it.
But he’s paid $20 million a year - a sum that Joe Sutter, the Project Engineer who did the 727 and later the 747 could only dream of.
What it means is that the big investment funds have a stable of their “their guys” who they put in charge to make sure the cash flow heads to them, and innovation be damned.
Many people on this forum disparage Elon Musk for example. But I have seen what his companies have done and can do, and I guarantee you, long after a smarmy little creep like McNerney (you can’t make up these names) is an un-remembered and irrelevant footnote in American history, Musk and other risk takers like him will be Legends.
The “Ivy League” is a cesspool of inbred, limp wristed sleazes.
elon musk got hundreds of millions of dollars from uncle sugar. don’t tell me he’s the same cloth that others are. if he didn’t get his freaking bailout by all of us, they were bankrupt and about 60 million in the hole.
Michigan Governor Rick Snyder had an interesting route through school and business on his way to the governor’s mansion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Snyder