Can be a lot worse, the CEO in a company I used to work at asked a group of IT people why are you guys not successful like WhatsApp, you are the same number of

Can be a lot worse, the CEO in a company I used to work at asked a group of IT people why are you guys not successful like WhatsApp, you are the same number of people (it was just after their exit)? None of the people in the room were employed as a developer. This was a first meeting of the group with the new CEO.