Cofounder of honeycomb.io, coauthor of Database Reliability Engineering. Operations engineer, DBA, systems engineer, SRE, devops, etc. On call since I was 17.
The only good diff is a red diff.
No, not necessarily. I've more often seen them be worse, because engineers tend to underestimate how important and/or challenging business stuff can be ("you just make the best product, and that will always win, right??"). Engineers have often underinvested in developing their powers of persuasion and other social skills as well.
But being a good CEO is all about surrounding yourself with people who are better than you, and knowing when and how to interfere.
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Do you think technologists make better CEOs than someone coming up through say marketing or finance ?
No, not necessarily. I've more often seen them be worse, because engineers tend to underestimate how important and/or challenging business stuff can be ("you just make the best product, and that will always win, right??"). Engineers have often underinvested in developing their powers of persuasion and other social skills as well.
But being a good CEO is all about surrounding yourself with people who are better than you, and knowing when and how to interfere.