My father in law has an engineering background, and was CEO of a chip company in the 90s. His belief is that engineers are better positioned to run a company th

My father in law has an engineering background, and was CEO of a chip company in the 90s. His belief is that engineers are better positioned to run a company than MBAs; finance & sales can be learned quite easily by engineers, whereas engineering is very hard for MBAs to get their head around. Having been CTO of a company with MBA fellow execs for the past handful of years, I'd concur with this -- there's nothing the sales/GTM side do that's not within your grasp to run if you put some time in. Hire some good director level GTM folk and keep the equity.