[hn_throwaway_99]

Sorry you had that experience, but that certainly wasn't mine. Don't want to reveal too much but some very high level people in the tech world that you've probably heard of (or at least heard of their companies) have strong musical backgrounds.

[jiggawatts]

Very high level people in the tech world are often politicians, climbing the ladder through their social skills.

I've observed an inverse relationship between technical skill and career progression in all technical industries.

It's always the pimply junior contractor tech who is the Global Administrator doing the actual work, and the "very high level people" struggle with copy-paste from one email to another.