Is there? The CEOs of Microsoft and Google are Asians who did not even grow up in the US.

Those CEOs are great examples, because they show the operative power networks are things like being a Brahmin or a McKinsey alum. I see less evidence for power networks based on race, or those power networks are doing less.

> operative power networks are things like being a Brahmin

What evidence do you have that Sundar or Satya used any power network to progress in their career?

Could it not be that being a Brahmin in India was not all that promising to an ambitious young Indian man and in response he decided to start fresh in another country where he had very little in the way of useful network connections?

> operative power networks are things like being a Brahmin

eh, what? Why would US corporate culture give a shit about Hindu castes? Google and Microsoft boards appointed Sundar and Satya, but I don't think those boards could tell a Brahmin from a non-Brahmin.

seems myopic to focus on final promotions in decades-long world-class careers

Specific examples don't overcome the overall statistics.

"bamboo ceiling" is not a statistic.

Underrepresentation of south and east asians in leadership roles is, though.

Do you have anything to back that up with, as far as I understood it Indian CEOs are responsible for significantly higher percentage of market valuations than their population percentage in the US.

Palo Alto Networks & Arista, Microsoft, Google, Adobe, IBM, Netapp, Micron... Even World Bank has an Indian CEO.

Can you provide the stats? I'm looking at the BLS data and I don't really see anything relevant.