Why are so many successful founding CEOs software engineers?

Re:Why are so many successful founding CEOs software engineers? by patentatt on Monday March 15, 2021 @09:07AM (#26465617)

> You'd probably be the lawyer who can code and any lawyer-adjacent tech company would love you.

As a lawyer who can code (years of experience as a professional software developer and years of experience as a practicing attorney) let me assure you, this is not the case. There just isn’t that much overlap, despite the common wisdom that such a thing should exist, it’s very hard to actually find.

Also, not everything outside of faang is ‘basic code’ - there’s a whole wide world out there!

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Re:Why are so many successful founding CEOs software engineers? by jasondigitized on Monday March 15, 2021 @09:37AM (#26465927)

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Re:Why are so many successful founding CEOs software engineers? by ekam on Monday March 15, 2021 @10:23AM (#26466402)

Your “careers” page is 404’ing FYI

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Re:Why are so many successful founding CEOs software engineers? by dilDDoS on Monday March 15, 2021 @10:28AM (#26466464)

Looks like they need to update their careers link from "careers-old" to "careers".

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Re:Why are so many successful founding CEOs software engineers? by ryandrake on Monday March 15, 2021 @11:00AM (#26466792)

I guess they really do need software engineers!

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