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In this week’s newsletter, we are looking into:
Just how little EAs for head coaches are paid
The salaries of executive assistants who make programs run smoothly aren’t great compared to the private sector.
Tidbits from calendars of coaches who lost in Week One
What on Brent Pry, Steve Sarkisian, and Dabo Swinney’s day planners portended doom?
The secrets to an unreal homemade chimichanga
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Head coach EAs are horrifically underpaid
When Silicon Valley’s imperious CEOs need an unflappable, indefatigable person to manage their myriad demands and whims, they turn to Maven Recruiting.
A recent listing by the firm is for a San Francisco-based AI startup hiring an executive assistant who “can anticipate needs before they’re spoken, keep a demanding schedule in perfect order, and bring calm to the chaos.”
The firm needs the person to coordinate complex travel arrangements, handle confidential matters with discretion, and proactively solve problems.
The company, like every Bay Area business, is probably hoping for unicorn status, a fabled billion-dollar valuation.
A recent estimate of major college football programs found 16 teams that were likely worth that much or more.
These teams are all helmed by figures with stark similarities to big tech’s mythical founders, driven visionaries who force their will upon the world and thrive where others failed.
They’re also, like tech executives, arrogant, overbearing, exacting, prone to fits of rage, and lavishly compensated.
But the similarities at the top don’t mesh with the realities at the bottom.
For its open EA role, the AI startup offers $180,000 a year.
And what does an EA at an SEC program with a famous coach pull in?
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