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Furthermore, IMO there are a ton of questionable assumptions littered throughout the article. The author goes into extreme detail describing exactly why softwa
by LMYahooTFY 6y ago
Furthermore, IMO there are a ton of questionable assumptions littered throughout the article.
The author goes into extreme detail describing exactly why software itself scales. This seems to have little to do with the CEO, though they keep jumping to comparisons between a software engineer's 'predictable' behavior, and the 'non-software' CEO's 'predictable' behavior.
- hntrader 6y agoAgreed. A plausible explanation for why the largest companies are tech companies is low marginal cost of replication combined with widespread appeal combined with network effects and IP moat which confers monopoly margins. Other businesses are constrained in a way tech companies will never be (geographical, meat space constraints) and are in legacy industries where decades of competition has eaten away margins. The explanation that the tech CEOs are better (although I'd agree with that statement in general) isn't the best one.