Carlos Slim: what is it like to work with the tycoon, according to the ex-shark Arturo Elias Ayub

Carlos Slim is the richest person in Mexico, and one of the richest in the world. Without a doubt, the tycoon has known where to invest his money to make it grow in a spectacular way.

According to the latest listing by the American financial magazine Forbes, Slim has a fortune of USD 55,930 million, and is ranked 16th among the wealthiest people in the world.

The magnate owns several companies, such as Grupo Carso, América Móvil and Telmex. At the helm of his companies, he has people who are completely trusted by him, for example, his children. However, another person who is part of the management of some of their companies is the husband of their youngest daughter Johanna Slim Domit, businessman Arturo Elias Ayub, who is a member of the Board of Directors of Grupo Carso, Grupo Financiero Inbursa, América Movil and Telmex. He is also Managing Director of Telmex Telcel Foundation and president of the Telmex Sports Institute.

Recently, Elías Ayub had a talk with journalist Elisa Alanís, to whom he told several things about his personal and working life. For example, the businessman said that his wife likes to dance very much, but he does not, however, both are very “party-goers”.

In the interview, Alanís asks him about what it meant to be part of such a powerful family in Mexico and the world. To this, the entrepreneur responds that it is a huge responsibility.

“Suddenly they put you on the networks: you because you are Slim's son-in-law, and they don't have the faintest idea of the great responsibility that implies, for those who are educated like this, and certainly, for their children, for their sons-in-law, that we have an education of hard work, values, love for Mexico, of simplicity, of doing things in one way, it implies a great responsibility, because if you had an education of: what father, let's go spend the wool and go to a yacht in Ibiza (...) I don't know what implication it would have in that sense, but I was educated, and the engineer's children were educated in a way where we really feel a deep responsibility to Mexico here, to begin with, a deep responsibility for all the jobs that are generated in this group, with each of the people who work here, you are talking about more than 300 thousand jobs”, explains the entrepreneur.

The interviewer asks Elias Ayub what Carlos Slim is like as boss. “He is hard, sometimes, he is very loving, not with me because he is his son-in-law, with the people who work with him in general, I think he gets very attached to people, but he is hard, and you know what happens, that then you have to meet him to understand him, because then the engineer despairs very quickly, and he accelerates, but because he is a guy who thinks faster that you, literally, is not a saying, so what you are talking to him, because he already went and came 18 times but don't think I'm telling you like... no no no, 18 times, that is, you start talking and he already knows what you're going to end up with, then suddenly he gets a little desperate.”

Mention that when you get the way to remove the inconsequential, talking about business, as a boss, and bring things to the point, then it's easier to take the meeting.

The interviewer questions her that if at family events, such as Christmas or New Year, they talk about business or disconnect completely from those work topics, to which Elias Ayub responds that if the topic comes up yes, but otherwise, no.

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