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Either the management are programmers themselves (Bill Gates, Sergey Brin, Mark Zuckerberg, ...) or else the company is a lost cause. They will simply get expel
by gizi 11y ago
Either the management are programmers themselves (Bill Gates, Sergey Brin, Mark Zuckerberg, ...) or else the company is a lost cause. They will simply get expelled out of the market by companies -- who take no prisoners -- of which the management are programmers. Only a programmer can create half a trillion dollars of value (Google Search). Nobody else can do that. Their output is too inferior for that.
- Retric 11y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug "The Man Who Saved A Billion Lives" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug#/media/File:Wheat_yields_in_selected_countries,_1951-2004.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug#/media/File:Whe... Granted, not exactly the work of one person, but neither is Google search. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Jenner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Jenner is probably the highest gains from any one person. Though there was a lot of prior work in the field.
- josephjrobison 11y agoIf I've only had self-taught exposure to programming and can do like PHP/WordPress and a bit of rails, but am more of a marketing business person, if 5-10 years down the road I want to start a software company and don't want to be taken advantage of would you absolutely recommend becoming proficient in a language to have cursory knowledge, or for your examples above would the management/CEO have to be a full-time extremely proficient programmer?