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Lots of scientist prowess except the CEO. Not ideal.
by untilHellbanned 10y ago
Lots of scientist prowess except the CEO. Not ideal.
- xiaoma 10y agoFrom your comment it's not quite clear if you feel it would be ideal to have fewer scientists or for the CEO to be a scientist, but I'm guessing the later. A couple of years ago while promoting his book in the south bay, Peter Thiel spoke about his experience with scientist-lead biotech companies: "While engineer-lead companies are sometimes poor in terms of business sense, scientist-lead companies tend to be catastrophic".
- dekhn 10y agoNot sure I agree with Thiel. Amgen, Genentech, Intel all had scientist-CEO-founders. There is a subset of scientists who tend to be excellent CEOs.