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Re:Why are so many successful founding CEOs software engineers? by GeneBond on Monday March 15, 2021 @02:46AM (#26463174)
I'm the author bawolff, and I completely agree that the success of software engineers as CEOs is correlation, not causation. The likely cause is that software engineers learn to discover value by running value experiments. Zuckerberg and Bezos are well known for their value experiments in production. I believe that the nature of pursuing new value, in effect, taught them this practice. And to the comment below, when it comes to oil, new value in the form of oil fields is also discovered. Prospecting for oil is one concrete form of the abstract pattern of discovering value, iterating in software is also prospecting for value. It's just that unlike oil, you can use software to prospect for all kinds of value very quickly.
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Re:Why are so many successful founding CEOs software engineers? by bawolff on Monday March 15, 2021 @07:03AM (#26464475)
If you gave a list of non-software companies that had software engineers as their CEOs, i'd give this some credence, but as is this is kind of rediculous when you have a giant elephant in the room confounding factor that you're pretending doesn't exist.

> Prospecting for oil is one concrete form of the abstract pattern of discovering value

So is literally everything.

Police officer: discovering value by figuring out the right person to arrest

Doctor: discovering value by figuring out what disease.

Etc

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Re:Why are so many successful founding CEOs software engineers? by lgsilver on Monday March 15, 2021 @10:09AM (#26466249)
Okay, but this is a function of the medium not of the people. Crafting successful feedback loops has defined great leaders across industries for hundred(s) of years. A bent toward experimentation is not something that software engineers possess. It's a trait that great leaders build into their businesses.
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Re:Why are so many successful founding CEOs software engineers? by sitkack on Monday March 15, 2021 @12:16PM (#26467862)
In my circles, I see little to no experimentation done in the computer field, much to my dismay. We already have the best simulator for the universe, itself.
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Re:Why are so many successful founding CEOs software engineers? by danielmarkbruce on Monday March 15, 2021 @06:05AM (#26464151)
You might not be understanding his/her point...
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Re:Why are so many successful founding CEOs software engineers? by efficax on Monday March 15, 2021 @09:35AM (#26465905)
The likely cause is that tech companies are the most recent space for capital innovation and profit, so have the hottest stocks right now
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