The first thing that I see again and again here is using the term "Marketing" wrongly: Marketing is not sales, marketing is not Advertising. Although usually t

The first thing that I see again and again here is using the term "Marketing" wrongly: Marketing is not sales, marketing is not Advertising. Although usually the "Marketing guys" also handle sales and Advertising, marketing is the study of markets, discovering the desires and needs of the people, it is not about how to force people to buy what they don't want or need. Good Marketing people do not sell you something that you don't need or want, but they know much better than you do what you need or want because they have studied that and they are good at it. Most times they don't even sell, they create and design a product or service because they know it is necessary before it exists. A great product or service for the right market like Pong the original game, the first desktop laser printer or the Iphone sells itself with little effort. People like software developers overvalue what they create for the company and undervalue the work of other disciplines. In fact every department tends to do that with other departments. I am an expert on Tex and LaTex, emacs and Vim, Lisp, and C derivative language programming and Unix systems although I am now entrepreneur. To say that using those technologies is simpler is forgetting all the time that you invested learning those technologies. In my case, decades. You know when you need to teach someone a technology like Markdown, you enter the rabbit hole of having to teach them to use Vim, or even installing a webserver so they can see in a beautiful way instead of ugly text, or even installing a Linux on a raspbery pi, and apt-get, and sudo and ls...