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> Unfortunately, there's no real place in the world for a highly technical business leader. So how do you account for Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Larry Page, a
by paulsutter 10y ago
> Unfortunately, there's no real place in the world for a highly technical business leader.
So how do you account for Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Larry Page, and so on?
I think you meant to say "there's no place at Dronecorp for a highly technical business leader". It's logical that Dronecorp should hire Harvard MBAs who score high on agreeableness and are skilled at showing each other powerpoints.
- tracker1 10y agoSee the last statement in the comment, "The only truly successful technical leader is the founder..."
- paulsutter 10y agoGoogle and other well run companies have skilled technical people at all management levels.
- DelaneyM 10y agoI'd love to meet one, or see a job description for such a role.
- nostrademons 10y agoWhen I was at Google my entire management chain had the title "software engineer" (except Alan Eustace, who officially had the title "VP of engineering" but had a hardware engineering background, and Larry Page, who had the official title of "CEO"). That was 6 levels up, including me. Amit Singhal (who was 3 levels above me and responsible for a department of 2000 people or so) was still titled "software engineer".
- dmitrygr 10y ago>So how do you account for Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Larry Page, and so on? Is this a game of "which of those three does not belong"? If so, too easy...