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by magicalhippo 524 days ago
Our company makes B2B for a rather technical niche.

We got a sales-oriented CEO who knows when to listen to us developers. It has worked very well for our company.

Being more sales-oriented he's found good business models and knows our customers well, and hence what our products are worth to our clients so we're not selling our products too cheap. This was the case before he took over from a more technical CEO.

While a CEO with an engineer background can certainly do well too, I think it's probably easier to find a good sales-based CEO that simply knows when to listen to their technical team. At least in theory...