Dear Dan,

I apologize for the wording; I would not dream of telling you what you can and cannot talk about. You're a smart person as far as I can judge, and I do not wish to limit your point of view to form it into mine. On the contrary, I wish to expand it to also see my point of view. I am sorry if I failed.

That said; a start up business can't afford a world class CEO. Some start up business help form a CEO into a world class CEO, but most start up businesses actually fail completely.

I am working in a no-longer-so-new start up business myself, and we have much of the same process here. A gründer with limited funding who needs to scramble together a few bucks to pay short term expenses, and CEO of Nokia need some of the polar opposite properties. As a gründer, formal education is more of a limit than an asset, as a multibillion corporation leader, such a person would usually find he doesn't know any of the theories of business strategy. You must be a gambler to gain success, but a gambler can ruin the most successful company just as quickly. Smart and well thought through manouvering can keep a big company on top despite all the small upstarters that aim for your throat.

Some people manage to go from little league to pro series without any education. I think you will find that these usually are the owners themselves and that's the only reason they haven't been replaced.