The ultimate example of this is Symbolics, the company behind the General Lisp machine. PhDs controlled the place and they ended up wasting gargantuan sums of m

The ultimate example of this is Symbolics, the company behind the General Lisp machine. PhDs controlled the place and they ended up wasting gargantuan sums of money on building the "perfect" Lisp machine. It's still probably the most advanced OS ever designed and yet it failed miserably. Like all things, balance is required. Engineers and finance people need to be on equal footing, to serve as a system of checks and balances. The when either group becomes to strong, it spells doom. It's usually the finance types that win these struggles of power though (I'm not exactly sure why), so don't have as many examples of engineers destroying companies. Though, I think Google might be a good example of flaky engineers taking over and the bad that results from it.