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Re:Three programmers got fired, including me, due to a singl... by MobileVet on Sunday July 11, 2021 @03:19PM (#27803836)

Have to disagree on this a bit. The meeting in question was with an investor. The CEO should be the point person for all investor relations... especially the first meeting with said investor.

If your CEO can’t ‘sell’ the product / app/ company to an investor effectively, you won’t last.

The CEO should absolutely have the skills, knowledge and energy to sell whatever it is your business does

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Re:Three programmers got fired, including me, due to a singl... by throwawayboise on Sunday July 11, 2021 @03:24PM (#27803886)

Oh of course the CEO should be involved with the investors, at a business level. I'm saying the CEO is not the best person to actually do the demo, in most cases. Bring along a product and sales expert to the meeting do that. Steve Jobs is the exeption that proves the rule; most CEOs do not have his showmanship.

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Re:Three programmers got fired, including me, due to a singl... by Diesel555 on Sunday July 11, 2021 @06:41PM (#27805063)

This reminds me of the WWDCs. Tim Cook is there to introduce the products, but their engineers (or management of the individual product) are the ones to demonstrate it.

But, I guess Apple probably has people with better salesmanship skills in each product team than the startup had below the CEO. I'm arguing with myself.

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