Powerful people at companies often aren't "valuable" in a global sense. The analogy is selling your soul, sealing a blood pact for power within a specific domain. Global value is more like being a contractor. Flexibility and freedom at the cost of no organization power.
They're useful cursed objects because they're empty vessels that can be charged with energy, but that takes time. Empty cursed objects often are just cast into exile.
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The illusion of global value is created by the illusion of separateness of organizations. A Senior Engineer has to jump through interview hoops. These create a boundary & an illusion of separateness. A VC looking over a portfolio of companies however does not see such boundaries
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From a VCs perspective, upper executives like CEOs are "Operators", suited for specific tasks and can be moved around while maintaining potency. (Though very slowly, like turning a battleship)
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