[remoteorbust]

I once worked at a company with no product management experience. Because of this they hired a string of toxic Steve Jobs wannabees because they simply didn't know what they didn't know.

They lacked experience in many areas. Ironically they ended up firing their only experienced executive (CTO). It's too bad, they had passionate engineers who could have built some amazing things (as evidenced imo by the amazing things they later built for Netflix/Google/Facebook/Amazon/etc) but they were stuck at a company that sort of wanted to be a tech company but didn't want any of those annoying "IT people" involved in decisions.

[jedharris]

Your last phrase is key: They really didn't want the experts, they just wanted the results. No one can hire good people if they think they already know better. Good people got good by picking good learning situations, and avoiding tarpits.