It's possible to have a leader who was technical at one point but no longer has any meaningful technical contribution. I worked for a company where the founder

It's possible to have a leader who was technical at one point but no longer has any meaningful technical contribution. I worked for a company where the founder and CEO built the first several iterations of the flagship product essentially by himself. Now the company has more than 100 employees, and he did earnestly try to keep a pulse on technical matters in the R&D department (where I worked) and sometimes gave input but honestly it was usually better when he didn't. Too many things pulling his attention in different directions.