Fremont: Simpson is not a viable candidate for chief executive of Pod Oil because he has no background in the oil industry. Galindo: I disagree. An oil industry background is no guarantee of success. Look no further than Pod Oil' s last chief executive, who had decades of oil industry experience but steered the company to the brink of bankruptcy. Galindo's argument is flawed in that it ['bases a conclusion that an attribute is always irrelevant to success on evidence that it is sometimes irrelevant to success', 'rests on a confusion between whether an attribute is necessary for success and whether that attribute is sufficient for success', 'fails to distinguish between relevant experience and irrelevant experience', "fails to justify its presumption that Fremont's objection is based on personal bias"]