Where do the CEOs and company presidents start their careers?

The successful ceo's and company presidents that run some of americas most successful businesses had to start somewhere, what did they do? Just start at the bottom of company and work their way up i guess. can anybody help me out?

Answers:
For large established businesses, a career in a Management consulting firms like McKinsey often lead to CEO and other executive jobs. For growing businesses, typically the CEO started as entrepreneurs with small businesses.
I think most start in the accounting departments of a company or in the sales or marketing department. The next logical step would be CFO and then finally on to CEO - a lot of CEO's were once a CFO and most have an MBA and started in middle management and also served on the Board of Directors. I am sure however that some have worked from the bottom of the company ladder all the way to the top, which is very impressive. A lot of the big companies will get a hired gun CEO from other companies but that CEO still started the way most other CEO's did at one time.

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