Published: October 19, 2025
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Just read that Starbucks lost $30B after hiring a McKinsey consultant as CEO. Guy spent his career advising founders how to build companies, but never built one himself. 17 months later, he’s gone. They bring in the Taco Bell CEO… and the market cap jumps $20B overnight. Turns

Also Forbes has best headlines 😀

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@TakoTreba McKinsey consultants are great CEO candidates for companies that want to go to zero fast

@StanleyWei4748 I mean it’s a different occupation I generally think that having advisor is great but not to lead a company

@TakoTreba To be a great CEO you need to study best practices but have operational experience

@JoshBobrowsky Absolutely! It’s one thing to tell others what to do but totally another when you have to do it

@TakoTreba Lessons, lessons and lessons

@yelbaiev Pretty much

@TakoTreba one thing that's saved me tremendous amount of time and energy is only listen to those who have done it themselves

@canermaker Ohhh yes! Having an advisor that done stuff is the best

@TakoTreba You just read something that happened like a year ago?

@FameToClaim I am bit late

@TakoTreba i dont think it's harder, it's totally different sets of skills and advisors normally dont have one

@wyndomb Agree on this one

@TakoTreba The McKinsey guy just wasn’t cut out for having skin in the game

@piodubro Yeahh, could have been great advisor tho :D

@TakoTreba "market cap jumps $20B overnight" is not really a sign of a great ceo is it? just the market reacting

@dathuny77039 He’s done good stuff since he joined

@TakoTreba It’s easy to give directions when you’re not the one driving.

@isaacthegram Ohh yes!

@TakoTreba it's like i always say, i wish starbucks was more like taco bell

@ChatDevr 🤣🤣

@TakoTreba Because all he did throughout his life is just bullshitting his way to the top. These consulting companies have zero accountability. They tell you something and most of the time it is just a common sense and there is no guarantee that the solution will work. It is like they throw

@TakoTreba Best analogy: I can tell you what haircut you should get, but I can’t cut it for you. There is still value in knowing what haircut would look good. Two different things

@TakoTreba Is that the same CEO who used to take a 1000-mile trip to and from work before he finally purchased a home in Seattle (where their HQ is) while receiving $96 million in compensation for the first 4 months?

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@TakoTreba Alphabet is also led by an ex-McKinsey CEO and seems to have done quite well. I'll never understand this fetishizing of founders - happening to have had one good idea and experience creating a small company don't magically make them good at managing a big one.

@TakoTreba Advising is for retards... Only people with life experience and leadership can lead a company to success... People writing reports on PPT are worthless

@TakoTreba I’ve been on the receiving end of forced advisory from someone with the same background: always a consultant, never responsible for executing. The results were catastrophic and a hard lesson for me. At least I’ve fallen forward.

@TakoTreba Yeah, because there’s still a real CEO that guides the consultant and says yay or nay to what the consultant advises. Consultants can be good for new perspectives and idea generation.

@TakoTreba Wrong. It didn't just 'turn out'. This has always been near 'certain' knowledge. You're just using it for shameless engagement farming (SEF)

@TakoTreba McKinsey has destroyed many companies..

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