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Honest answer to an honest question? Because the nerds are in charge. I’ve lost count of the number of times dev types have been put in marketing or management
by dmje 6y ago
Honest answer to an honest question? Because the nerds are in charge.
I’ve lost count of the number of times dev types have been put in marketing or management roles because someone thought that stuff is easy. Imagine putting a marketing type in charge of your server.
Writing, marketing, product management: these are all real, solid skills, and quite often (not always), devs or startup CEO’s don’t have them.
- wryoak 6y agoLots of people out there think lots of other professions are no more complex than mashing rocks together, and I would venture techies are probably the most arrogant of these
- muzani 6y agoTo add, nerds are not always the programmers. There are plenty of people from finance who do the same. Sometimes the CEO, who has a sales background, gets a little too obsessed with the technology behind the product and doesn't explain what problem it solves. There's a cliche that the ideal founding team is a hacker (dev), a hustler (business), and a hipster (UX). When a team misses out on the hipster founder, these things happen.