The current lot barely understands crypto, digital, or product. They’re just milking the cash cow because they wouldn’t land a job anywhere else with their inflated bulge bracket salaries. Last I had intel on this, the average base pay in this group was easily north of $200K—for what? Churning out recycled pitch decks with zero clients.
Capital planning is a joke—just an excuse to burn through cash on projects that get hyped up, torn down, and repackaged every few quarters, like some third-hand hand-me-down. The only real money-making operation here is engineering, billing this group ridiculous amounts for resources they barely utilize. Honestly, if they cut this group in half, no one would notice or care.
Last I heard:
Caroline fired her competitive hire within six months and replaced him with...
Some loudmouth old-timer you can hear across the Atlantic, who talks a big game to clients but has zero wins under his belt.
The notorious sociopath (God help DT**—you have no idea what’s coming) who, after shoving another sociopath dude up the ladder, has somehow gamed her way to promotions without delivering a dime of revenue. HR complaints are piling up, but CB still protects this toxic crew. And let’s not even start on how she’s a terrible example of DEI—this is exactly why bad representation ruins it for the deserving ones.
The engineering guy, who fast-tracked his promotion by shameless bootlicking—though, to be fair, he’s probably the only one who actually did any real work.
The other Indian guy, whose purpose remains a mystery, aside from protecting his bros from India. Why they even operate out of 240 is baffling—everything they do could be done from Pune or Chennai at a fraction of the cost.
Classic bulge bracket nonsense.