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> Unfortunately, there's no real place in the world for a highly technical business leader. You were at MS. How do you call Bill Gates if not highly technical
by atmosx 10y ago
> Unfortunately, there's no real place in the world for a highly technical business leader.
You were at MS. How do you call Bill Gates if not highly technical ? :-)
That said, I understand what you mean.
> Also, I'd really misdiagnosed my malaise. What I'd been missing was not strategic input, but the opportunity to build things.
Isn't that exactly what Steve Jobs was doing for a living at Apple (or Pixar)?
Again I understand what you're saying, but maybe not all companies/positions are so well defined as you make it sound.
- spinlock 10y agoBill Gates was a drop-out, not an MBA. Steve Jobs was a ... wait for it ... drop-out but also not technical. Steve Wozniack was the technical founder of Apple. If you really want to understand Jobs' talent, think about what Apple did when he left and how they changed when he came back. The technology didn't change that much (sure, Unix, but that wasn't _that_ big of a deal). The key difference is how they sold computers. After Jobs' was forced out, Apple started to copy the MicroSoft strategy: make computers highly customizable. Needless to say, that didn't work for Apple. After Jobs' came back, Apple stopped that strategy and started selling 3 options: good, better, and best. IMO, that's the real key of Jobs' Apple turn-around. He made it easy for people to buy computers. Anyway, from that perspective, Jobs was all sales/marketing and not even close to what you'd consider a CTO.