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Can people who aren't technical geniuses build complex systems?
- kungfukeys 7y agoSteve Jobs is an example of a non-technical genius? He obviously wasn't as brilliant technically as others, but he was still elite.
- TechWriterTom 7y agoIn comparison to Bill Gates -- he's the perfect example. Each had different strengths. Jobs was a marketing genius. While Gates understood Microsoft's marketing plan in depth -- their approach was fundamentally different. You can also compare Jobs to Edwin Catmull when he was running Pixar. Catmull was an analytical thinker with a background in science. Obviously Jobs complimented him nicely -- and Jobs was critical to the success of Pixar. You need to understand the implications, context and how a technology works. But you don't have to be the best engineer in the world to build tech companies.