Starts off good, then it moves to...

Discussing his time as an intern at Jobs' NeXT with CNBC Make It, Kapoor said: "I was one step below the person that opened doors but that didn't matter because I worked 20 yards away from him every day."

Be a giant creepy sycophant.

"Titles, money, all that will come because what you will learn from them will help you have impact ... The quicker you can draw a line from your work to the impact that you're having on the company, the more successful you will be."

Sycophantism to totally beholden to the company and only for money and titles.

"Here's what I tell everybody that's coming out of college, and wants to look for a gig," Kapoor said. "Find a set of people that you think you can learn from. Don't worry about the titles. Don't worry about what company they work for. Convince them that they need you and then pay them $50,000 a year so that you can work for them."

But only after you pay them to work for them.

So let's recap, according to an "influential" C suit exec, the best way to be successful is to be a sycophant entirely beholden to the company whose willing to pay for the pleasure of being a sycophantic tool.

And we wonder why stuff is so messed up?