Podcasts Culture Freakonomics Radio 315. How to Become a C.E.O.

315. How to Become a C.E.O.

Published: Jan. 25, 2018, 4 a.m.

b'Mark Zuckerberg\'s dentist dad was an early adopter of digital x-rays. Jack Welch blew the roof off a factory. Carol Bartz was a Wisconsin farm girl who got into computers. No two C.E.O.\'s have the same origin story \\u2014 so we tell them all! How the leaders of Facebook, G.E., Yahoo!, PepsiCo, Microsoft, Virgin, the Carlyle Group, Reddit, and Bridgewater Associates made it to the top. (Part 2 of a special series, "The Secret Life of C.E.O.\'s.")'