Maybe that Chief of Staff model would work. I don't know. But just a little feedback — real leaders are not high school popularity contest winners. They are ju

Maybe that Chief of Staff model would work. I don't know. But just a little feedback — real leaders are not high school popularity contest winners. They are just very effective at managing human and other capital. Think of someone like Jeff Bezos. I think the biggest issue with a tech person being in leadership is that it takes a lot of time to develop the real soft skills required for leadership. That doesn't mean becoming your caricature of an MBA-style leader. It means actually understanding how to talk to people and get them to perform and do what you need them to. You don't get that by being a large ego-ed braggart. Then, it of course takes a lot of time to develop technical skills. If you want to be both, you will have a much harder time reaching the apex of both skill levels, hence why tech/business co-founding teams are very common. That's not to say one person can't be good at both both — many are — but these people are much rarer and are unicorns of their own. Often, you have to have some natural talent for one of these skillsets, and then work hard to compensate for your lack of competency in the other domain.