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If you place the resumes of Martin Winterkorn and Matthias Mueller side-by-side, it would be hard to spot the difference.
After early positions at Audi, the outgoing and incoming Volkswagen AG chief executive officers spent the next 20 years hopping between development roles in the carmaker’s 600,000-employee empire. Winterkorn became Audi chief before graduating to head the whole group, while Mueller made his penultimate stop at the Porsche unit.