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The alternative is to stubbornly hang on to a technical CEO until the CEO barely knows what the company does. I have a hard time admiring CEOs who carry contemp
by trjordan 9y ago
The alternative is to stubbornly hang on to a technical CEO until the CEO barely knows what the company does. I have a hard time admiring CEOs who carry contempt for most of their employees.
- opportune 9y agoThe thing about Docker is that the target audience has a technical background. Bob and Joe Accounting has no need for Docker, but Google does, HPC users do, Amazon does, etc. If the CEO doesn't even know how the product works or what it does, that's fine if you're selling iPads to school superintendents, but not so fine if even your customers are likely to know more than you. Not to insinuate that Singh doesn't understand the product. I'm sure he does, to an appreciable extent. But this isn't just a technical product, it's a technical product that pretty much only other technical people are going to be interested in. You say that holding on to a technical CEO will lead to contempt for the nontechnical employees of the company, I say that even the nontechnical employees of the company (project managers, account execs, salespeople) will need to have technical backgrounds anyway