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> There are far more successful CEO run corporations compared to family run corporations.

No, there are not, if we look at survival (the entire point of Skin in the Game).

Find us some examples of non-family-run corporations more than 200 years old.




The whole concept of non-family-run corporations is barely 200 years old. At that point in time, it literally took an act of the legislature to form a corporation, and this right was typically only granted for a limited time for a very specific purpose (i.e. specifically and only to build a railroad between two specific cities, and set to come up for renewal in a few years).


On the contrary, the NYSE was founded in 1792. State Street Bank and Chubb Insurance Group were both founded before 1800, and are not family-owned AFAICT.

So the question still stands.




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