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by baxtr 552 days ago
Just a small side comment: I don’t think that being technical and focusing on the right things are equivalent.

There are examples of people like Steve Jobs who knew how to surround themselves with the right technical people without being too technical themselves.

And then there are also the technical leaders that ignore the business side…
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silvestrov 552 days ago
Steve Jobs is the exception that confirms the rule.

There are so very few non-tech people who knows how to run a tech company.

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twoodfin 552 days ago
Steve Jobs wasn’t a programmer, but he was absolutely a techie. Go watch some of his marketing and keynote videos from the NeXT days: He understood the technology and more importantly why it mattered to the product and customers.
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baxtr 552 days ago
I don’t think that’s true.

Also, think about the corollary: if that was true then most certainly the opposite is also true that technical people are terrible at business decisions.

Hardly my experience. Some are, but some are excellent business people.

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johnnyanmac 551 days ago
>the opposite is also true that technical people are terrible at business decisions.

I'd say thst is generally true, yes. That's why the CTO isn't the CEO.

The big issue people are hinting at is that there's not much balance in this C suite these days. Just a bunch of people who all put money first, that isn't the CFO.

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