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Re:Ask HN: I don't enjoy being a CTO. Now what? by DelaneyM on Monday June 13, 2016 @01:46PM (#11895714)
All of those people are founders.

My thesis is that there's no place in the world to be hired as an engineer w/ an MBA (which is comparably compensated to and inaccessible to "just" engineers or "just" MBAs), and no place within traditional hierarchies.

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Re:Ask HN: I don't enjoy being a CTO. Now what? by tim333 on Monday June 13, 2016 @01:59PM (#11895795)
Ah - got you. Though I could counter with Satya Nadella who had a degree in Comp Sci and an MBA before joining Microsoft.
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Re:Ask HN: I don't enjoy being a CTO. Now what? by DelaneyM on Monday June 13, 2016 @03:07PM (#11896435)
But he hadn't been a practicing engineer, and never worked in an engineering or technical capacity at Microsoft.
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