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A software engineer can create but can they sell? Can something you create be worth a billion dollars without selling it? Even the highest selling piece of art

• meiraleal 3y ago
  Why do you believe that software engineers can't sell? Many programmers have created billion-dollar companies, more than any other profession. The world's largest companies today were founded by software engineers. There's no inherent need for a designated "business" person within a tech company. And we didn't even talk about FOSS and indie development which are both as big as big tech and driven exclusively by programmers.
  • Sai_ 3y ago
    The original comment seemed to imply that every software engineer is deserving of more by virtue of being a software engineer in a trillion dollar company. That seems very questionable to me which is what I was calling out. I’m sure there are a handful of Zuckerberg type people (let’s be extravagant and say there at 10k such developer/entrepreneurs who have built unicorns by dint of their software skills) but the software engineering discipline is orders of magnitude bigger than 10k. Edit - Since the original comment was focused on dollar value created by software engineers, we can discount much of FOSS where value has been captured by the likes of AWS and RedHat, not the FOSS community.