[rhaway84773]

The ultimate irony about Steve Jobs’s companies led by sales vs engineering was that Jobs was little more than a salesman himself. He certainly wasn’t an engineer.

Or, rather, it wasn’t ironic and he was talking about a company culture driven by sales rather than product broadly, and wasn’t talking about individual CEOs at all, which is how many misunderstand his statement as.

And a sales driven company culture can be created both by sales driven CEOs and engineering driven CEOs and vice versa.

[scarface74]

No SJ wasn’t a sales person he was a product person. There is a huge difference. Especially in his later years, he knew good products and he had good taste.

Eric Schmidt for instance wouldn’t even use an Android device four years after it was introduced. Jobs made them retool the iPhone after it was introduced and before it was launched because he didn’t like how much the screen scratched in his pocket.

[HWR_14]

Wasn't Jobs a salesman who spent some time as an engineer? That is, a phenomenal salesman somewhat rooted in what was actually possible?

And paired with a phenomenal engineer cofounder.