M. Andreessen:‘Find the smartest technologist in the company and make them CEO’

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10 pointsbkovacic4 comments

What if they don't want to be CEO? What if they prefer working on technical stuff and don't especially enjoy the duties and spotlight of CEO?

Which one was the smarter technologist?

Steve Jobs or Steve Wozniak

Bill Gates or Paul Allen

Larry Page, Sergey Brin, or Scott Hassan

Mark Zuckerberg or Andrew McCollum

Marc Randolph or Reed Hastings

You see what I'm getting at?

I'd love to buy a modern Apple-led-by-Woz device, kidding?

I'm not saying the Woz wouldn't make a good CEO, or that Apple with him at the helm wouldn't be good. What I'm saying is that Woz is the better technologist, but Jobs got the CEO's chair. The opposite of what Andreessen is advocating for in the article.

Tesla might be the best example of just such a company. And yeah, Elon didn’t want to be CEO. Even tried to get Diess on board. But there was no other choice. Good for the company, I guess, because no great technologist will actually want to be CEO.

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