BTW, I have significant personal experience with one of “the smartest guys in the room” and yes, they were (or at least he is) VERY smart by any normal business world standards. He’s particularly great at giving obvious in retrospect answers to marketing type problems. It would be a somewhat unusual room full of business people or other social elites where the guy I’m thinking of isn’t the smartest guy.
BTW, I have significant personal experience with one of “the smartest guys in the room” and yes, they were (or at least he is) VERY smart by any normal business world standards. He’s particularly great at giving obvious in retrospect answers to marketing type problems. It would be a somewhat unusual room full of business people or other social elites where the guy I’m thinking of isn’t the smartest guy.