When a series of founders and founding engineers runs out, there are only two socially acceptable types of outsider executives who can be installed: those trained to capture profits and those trained to exert a company in service to intangible social goals. Until and unless a new source of executive training and thinking is built, one which teaches that companies deserve quick and merciful deaths or immediate and uncompromising resuscitation, even the most prestigious and cash-rich companies won’t be immune to zombification, and the most talented and ambitious men and women of each generation will choose to found new organizations rather than serve or take charge of old ones.
