When I see someone calling themselves CEOs, it makes me smile.
I would personally never call myself an ceo untill my company has a few studios around the world.
And later I see some wanabe CEOs, wanabe founders with 0 people under their charge, 0 games released, and 0 revenue
You know, even if a 2x2metres gazette kiosk owner would call themselves CEOs, I would cringe less. They are at least making some money. Not anything big, but stable
A lot of such CEOs want linking on linkedin, it is laughable.
But i think is “inflation” of terms, blame marketing for it.
In certain jurisdictions, the titles of company owners (no matter how small) are dictated legally.