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