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I've much rather bet on a company with a great CEO and mediocre developers than one with a mediocre CEO and great developers. If you're building the wrong produ
by JamesBarney 3y ago
I've much rather bet on a company with a great CEO and mediocre developers than one with a mediocre CEO and great developers. If you're building the wrong product it doesn't matter if Carmack or Linus is writing the code the company will fail. And judging from the code and technical competence I've seen, it's isn't uncommon for a company to succeed with mediocre devs
> You can teach most engineers to sell, lead, and plan.
Have you run a large company? I've run a small one so was forced to learn all of these skills, and let me tell you, it was hard, I found it much harder than learning how to code.
- icedchai 3y agoExactly this. I worked at a small startup where we had great engineering talent. It was hard to find in this area. We got a product built, shipped, running with beta B2B customers... then it fell flat on its face. After the initial release, there was little to no marketing, poor go-to-market strategy, and slow sales. This was all the CEO's realm. Sales and marketing is hard.