Hence the E in CEO: executive.

They execute the will of the board.

Given that boards and CxO’s are all cronies anyway there’s very little difference.

Hiring CxO’s happens at the golf club.

Exactly. Decentralized services and servers that are unified in a common standard is the way the web should always have been.

Someone fucked up and told the advertisers that a dollar could be made so we end up with the ad cancer that is the ‘modern’ web.