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Harry appointed senior exec at $1bn startup

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porcelaine · 23/03/2021 14:47

Just seen that Harry has been appointed Chief Impact Officer at a billion dollar valued Silicon Valley startup.
This feels so unfair. I know people who have worked for years first qualifying then gaining experience in their field, without a hope of a job like this. Harry of the 2 A levels and zero formal work experience outside of the army. He can bleat about the hardships of privilege all he wants but he’d never get near a job like this as a private “normal” citizen.

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cyclingmad · 23/03/2021 20:31

@porcelaine

Tbh I never said he should get a job, he has a 40m fortune and has just signed major deals with Netflix and Spotify to do vanity projects, in line with a lot of the very rich and/or offspring of the rich. Any job Harry gets is not going to be in line with his actual qualifications or experience for reasons pps have already mentioned - security, profile etc.
On one hand you say he has a 40m fortune do doesn't need a job, on the other you expect him o work his way up.

Your obviously bitter about him but there are plenty of people who waltz through life. Plebty of children with rich parent school get jobs without having to work their way up, do you complain about those as well?

You just come across bitter and jealous to be honest.

Oblomov21 · 23/03/2021 21:17

Good grief, why are we all surprised though?

Kimye4eva · 23/03/2021 22:12

That will be why all those retired jockeys are being offered £100k a year to be non-exec directors of racecourses for four days a year, then. Oh hang on...

Well it could also have something to do with her experience of having bred and trained race horses. But don’t let the fact she actually knows a thing or two about horses and racing stop your judgemental views.

EsmaCannonball · 23/03/2021 22:17

I guess this is the modus operandi from now on; get paid shedloads by using his status to attract attention and investment to start-ups, essentially being paid for who he is rather than what he knows. It's why the half-in, half-out plan would never have worked.

Oldbutstillgotit · 23/03/2021 22:23

One of my friends pointed out that today is Eugenie’s birthday. Once more she seems to be overshadowed.......

RaindropsSplashRainbows · 23/03/2021 22:28

The Eugenie thing is odd.

Is she the Queen's best buddy among the grandkids?

Roussette · 23/03/2021 22:29

What's Eugenie's birthday got to do with this?
We've never acknowledged all the minor royals birthdays before, so I'm genuinely confused with what a press release about Harry getting a job has to do with this?

longwayoff · 23/03/2021 22:31

GrinGrinGrin a job? That will come as a shock. Hope they've sorted out their tax affairs.

Thepilotlightsgoneout · 23/03/2021 22:33

able to waltz through life

You think he’s waltzed through life? His mum died suddenly when he was a child!

Oldbutstillgotit · 23/03/2021 22:49

@ Roussette
The thing about Eugenie is that some people believe H and M announcements coincide with major life events for Eugenie eg first pregnancy announcement ( allegedly) at Eugenie’s wedding .

Oldbutstillgotit · 23/03/2021 22:52

@ RaindropsSplashRainbows

Again allegedly- H and E were great chums and E is very friendly with Chelsy and Cressida so M didn’t like it . Have no idea ( hence allegedly) but that is a theory .

ssd · 23/03/2021 22:53

Well, at least Harry isn't using the Royal connection to further himself in life.

ssd · 23/03/2021 22:54

Bit like Brooklyn Beckham. He gets jobs fair and square too.

tenlittlecygnets · 23/03/2021 22:59

Jeez, if he couldn't help Meghan to get help for her MH, with all his connections and the palace doctor being on hand, then how will he be able to help this organisation? I have no idea.

FromEden · 23/03/2021 23:55

What's Eugenie's birthday got to do with this?
We've never acknowledged all the minor royals birthdays before, so I'm genuinely confused with what a press release about Harry getting a job has to do with this?

Ah yes, just another coincidence that an announcement from them happens to clash with another RF members wedding/anniversary/event/speech/birthday. Just a coincidence, every time.

FromEden · 23/03/2021 23:57

Well, at least Harry isn't using the Royal connection to further himself in life.

The company website has him billed as "Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex". So, yes, he is

Toddlerteaplease · 24/03/2021 00:05

As a PP said, he couldn't even get his wife any support. So not sure how this will work out!

Malteser71 · 24/03/2021 00:23

From Eden

I think they were being sarcastic.

SpanishLady · 24/03/2021 00:46

Agree with posters that question why he is being knocked. The whole point was to be independent so this is what he'll have to do.

Of course it's because he's a prince, of course he'll not actually work 9-5 everyday - if I were a multi-millionaire I wouldn't work full time either.

His work is always going to be high touch - investments, charity support, paying others to do the day to day stuff. Look at who they have brought in to do the actual Netflix content - no one actually thought it was him and Meg did they?

He'll drop into things, be the face of things, sign off etc but we'll still see him seemingly able to turn up to all sorts of things in all parts of the world because he won't be beholden to the kind of time and space restraints the rest of us have.

It's clever really.

What does strike me though is how this sort of stuff relates to what they were saying in the interview. The original plan was to be half in and half out - so a part time working royal with the benefits of royal security so then the half out was meant to be stuff like this and not Netflix (as that was because the security was removed so they say) - I'm not sure if I quite believe this but interesting.

I wonder if they gave him the job before or after the interview (obv announcement after)?

While he couldn't pick the phone for his wife to get her help he did after all pack them all up and left the U.K. and his family behind so that will seem more audacious and appealing don't you think?

He definitely needs the title and royal association so odd he'd jeopardise that but think it's a calculated risk - he'll always be Prince Harry whether his dad speaks to him or not. That said the more the RF 'starve' him of access and photo ops to them the more this could dim his star but by then he may have created his own brand in the US and not care.

I'm pretty jealous - I'd love to be paid to do little. I do hope though we stop hearing their complaints though.

KatherineParr · 24/03/2021 01:01

Harry was never going to get a 9-5. People of his economic and social class don't. I actually think this looks like a good job for him - he'll be able to use his public profile to raise awareness of the company and get paid for it. It does also look like a job that has been especially created for him so I don't think he's taken an opportunity away from someone else.

I would like to see him adopt the same approach as Beatrice and Eugenie and just be 'Harry Sussex' at work rather then using his title, but he does seem to enjoy being Prince Harry given that he has voluntarily chosen to keep using the title in the US.

cyclingmad · 24/03/2021 01:23

What a horrible bunch of posters, all the nasty comments about his education, intelligence, how he isn't qualified enough, someone else deserves it, how its not a proper job etc.

Your no better than him really with your snobbery

All this chatter about a proper job being a nurse etc. Right so come on whats the list of proper jobs then? Does a street cleaner make it? Or is that not a proper job?

If a person doesn't have a degree he is unskilled and has nothing to offer right, thats what your saying. There are lots of people without lots of qualifications who do a good job. That might be your child one day and is that what you will think of them?

All your coming across is bitter. You say he isn't qualified to be in the field of mental health well what exactly are you doing other than tearing someone down? How is that being considerate, compassionate and supporting of a persons mental health if you continue to judge and criticise every single thing they do.

DeeCeeCherry · 24/03/2021 01:44

I doubt you'd be satisfied unless he was sweeping the streets. & possibly, not even then.

He's a Royal with connections, he's not the 1st to have a mega paying job created for him and he won't be the last.

So all those desperate for his downfall as he had the sense to leave the wasps nest will just have to carp on about him fruitlessly for the rest of their lives.

Or actually get a life.

Ritascornershop · 24/03/2021 03:17

What? I said a proper job and suggested a nurse. What I meant was a job that normal people have. It seems unlike a Royal would become a streetsweeper or work in Specsavers, but obviously those are proper jobs. To me a proper job is one that needs to be done, your mates have them, they aren’t made up nonsense jobs that people do for prestige and don’t actually need to exist. Working in Tescos is a proper job, being an X-ray tech is a proper job, being an air ambulance pilot is a proper job, being a nurse is a proper job.

It’s not about training, it’s about do normal people do those jobs and are they contributing.

SteppinOutwithMyBaby · 24/03/2021 03:35

@ElspethFlashman Nothing to do with anything, I just wanted to say I love George MacDonald Fraser's books.

But not the movie.

QuidditchQueen · 24/03/2021 03:41

@Wondermule
Great post - H does seems to just be flailing around/no coherence/nothing sticks. Wish the media would just stop reporting on their every move.