Anecdotal. Back in the day, I worked for a large distribution company where the CEO, CCO, CFO, and COO came from IT. When you looked through the code you could

Anecdotal. Back in the day, I worked for a large distribution company where the CEO, CCO, CFO, and COO came from IT. When you looked through the code you could still see their commits. They had a unique perspective because they had in their minds giant maps of how everything connected behind scenes. Purchasing, orders, payments, receivables, inventory, etc. For example. The people in purchasing only knew how purchasing worked but they didn't understand how the system connected with finance or operations. But the C* executives knew, and understood what was possible and what difficult. They were very effective. It was a pleasure working with them. To this day I think it was a great model.