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by sanderjd 393 days ago
> But if you are a non-technical CEO and your core business is, say, enterprise SaaS software, you don’t fundamentally understand what the heck is going on

Why the hell not? It's not that hard! I think this sounds like laziness, honestly.

It is no harder to understand how your enterprise SaaS software works than it is to understand what makes your retail business or trucking company tick. If you're running a company in a business, I really think you should understand how the important pieces of your business work... Is that really so controversial?

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Every CEO I have worked for - and I am an executive - doesn’t know shit about software engineering. I mean I’m paid a lot of money for that. I just explain things in metaphors, but the non-tech execs are clueless