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In business strategy this is known as The Peter Principle. From Wikipedia, The Peter Principle is the principle that "in a hierarchy every employee tends to ris
by andre3k1 16y ago
In business strategy this is known as The Peter Principle. From Wikipedia, The Peter Principle is the principle that "in a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to their level of incompetence".
As Tumblr grew beyond Marco's abilities he became incompetent as a CTO. Great job of him admit this and step down versus having to be laid off.
- adambyrtek 16y agoDo you have any arguments to prove this thesis? If not, then you are rightfully downvoted.
- batasrki 16y agoHe gets downvoted anyway, simply for the backhanded compliment he just served up.
- code_duck 16y agoI think this is somewhat similar to that, yes. "Tumblr’s technical management needs have evolved to require types of experience that I don’t have" That's is essentially exactly what Marco said. Not that he was incompetent exactly, but that he was not suited for what the CTO job at tumblr had become. I don't think it's the Peter Principle though - he didn't rise to that position. The position changed as tumblr grew. I agree that it's wise of him to see this and choose to step down; I've seen other companies suffer when the founding engineers were not wise enough to admit that the technicalities of scaling from a medium size site to a truly large one was beyond their experience.
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