[rukuu001]

This article is pretty wrong, but look at the upvotes. It obviously speaks to a lot of people.

I think it says more about the disconnect between dev and product, than the actual sins of product people.

[rib3ye]

And if those engineers read to the last line, I think they would pretty surprised at the author’s conclusion:

> Take your most competent sales person and put him in charge of the product.

[ghiculescu]

This is great advice. I think people are reacting badly, because they are skipping over the word "competent" and attributing a lot of malice to the word "sales".

I think it says more about the disconnect between dev and sales, than the actual sins of sales people.

[spacecadet]

Agreed and that hacker news readers may not be any different than the average news consumer, going on title and no content when forming an opinion.