The fish rots from the head.
Also what the fuck is a sales-facing CTO??
Also what the fuck is a sales-facing CTO??
The product itself is a secondary cost-center, probably less important than even accounting.
https://www.businessinsider.com/john-mcafee-tweet-said-his-s...
Recently ordered an HP laptop for some light work (not my startup), and when placing the order said don't include McAfee, that "I don't trust them", all just from some odor!
CloudStrike runs in kernel mode? No wonder there are problems; kernel mode sounds like more of a threat than a protection.
Sooooo, for my Web server(s), McAfee and CloudStrike are issues I get to ignore. Problems avoided and time, money, energy saved!! Simple.
I’m on #2 now and it’s been great. It’s like a breakup. “What was I thinking?”
Of course if it is representing your values and your values are purely mercenary, it’s really not going to change anything.
Is that what happens when a company has so many Sales Engineers that they become a parallel department from regular Engineering?
Perhaps of a symptom of the "Everyone is in sales" brain damage so pervasive in companies now.