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‘Find the smartest technologist in the company and make them CEO

• panny 4y ago
  >Find the smartest technologist How would a company do this when they are run by tech illiterates? They don't know what they don't know. What I see from one company to the next is the smartest passed over for somewhat smart people who have seniority.
  • kvee 4y ago
    In the long run, better things win. Increasingly companies are being founded by non-tech illiterates and eventually those will be most companies and organizations. http://www.paulgraham.com/mean.html http://www.paulgraham.com/mean.html does a great job explaining why this is. Historically things weren't like that, but they are changing fast.
    • panny 4y ago
      I don't think they're being mean, they just aren't tech literate enough to know the difference between good and great. Which is why I see people job hop for a while, only to try their luck at a start up where they can get in on the ground floor and become the CTO or vice president of something. I guess once they're in that club, they try to job hop again into bigger and better companies.