Personally, I don't. For one thing, his hard analytical skills (read: Excel hacker) were obviously honed by working in finance. I also feel his background gave

Personally, I don't. For one thing, his hard analytical skills (read: Excel hacker) were obviously honed by working in finance. I also feel his background gave him tons of real world, high stakes experience in using Excel to turn data into decisions, which is hard to replicate. Also, I think working a shitty ibanking job with crazy hours can make you both willing to grind and appreciative of how fun being a tech pm can be.