Not only can strong technical people not report to non-technical people, they need those they report to, to be much better than them along at least one obvious technical dimension.
People think there are exceptions to this rule, they could not be more wrong.
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How do you reconcile CTO —> CEO?
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“the biggest predictor of whether a company will successfully adopt machine intelligence is whether they have a C-Suite executive with an advanced math degree.” —
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Yah - still feel like there are plenty of examples (inc. recent ones) where this isn’t true, not specifically with ML, but someone like Jobs comes to mind.
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People love to find counter examples to this very useful and accurate rule. I don’t know why.
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Well you phrased it (or at least I read it as) without exception and that seemed wrong so I said so heh
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That’s how Twitter works isn’t it.
My point of course is it rarely works, it’s a big problem and everybody knows it. But people keep trying to make it work.
Like people not getting enough sleep and saying they don’t need it
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Now we're talkin ;)
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Actually the I think about the initial bit - deep product people mostly come to mind when I think of successful counter-examples. I'm not sure I can think of ones where "sales" worked out. I'm sure it exists. Also I am obv biased by 20 years of tech & gaming pre-baseball.
Contrast that with Stripe. Good technical founders.
Engineering is not enough. Great ideas matter more. But no one ever had too much good engineering.
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