Amazing how many people who are smart enough to engineer software fail to comprehend that these things are necessary for success. If you are starting a company

Amazing how many people who are smart enough to engineer software fail to comprehend that these things are necessary for success. If you are starting a company or currently running a company, the adage of "if they build it they will come" is not true, and your finances will not miraculously manage themselves and once you reach a headcount of anything outside founders and a few direct reporting employees you will have to find some one to spend at least a portion of their bandwidth preparing/planning work and focusing peoples time and energy. Obviously there are "bullshit" jobs, as people love to reference, in massive company's with thousands of employees and a billion dollars in assets - but... ok? Of course massive bureaucracies contain some level of redundancy and cruft but, even still a lot of that is actually by design from a planning perspective.