[yjftsjthsd-h]

> c'mon, do you know how many "led by engineers" hardware companies have failed to make a splash in the market?

Statistically, I'd guess that most companies fail, but I don't think engineering-first companies do any worse than marketing-first companies. Granted, it's a balancing act; you have to be able to sell, but you have to have something to sell; omitting either will end badly.

> hell, the NeXT was an engineering play that utterly failed, and they weren't even led by an engineer, many people think that guy was a marketing genius.

NeXT was led by Steve Jobs, who was, as you note, not an engineer. I'm not sure what you mean this to be an example of, but it's not really relevant to arguments about "led by engineers" companies.

[fijiaarone]

Engineer led companies fail because they don’t receive enough funding. Sales & Marketing led companies fail because they spend too much money.

[abudabi123]

I read somewhere in passing the IBM Watson project spent significant money buying medical imagery datasets to get to the starting line.