I've spent 10 years coding, and I'd be equally useless on a team building CPUs. Similarly, I'd be equally useless on a team building a kernel.
A company of one isn't much use, the corporate form allows people to come together to build more than they could on their own.
Who really cares if someone is or isn't 'technical'. One of the important roles of a CEO is being the interface between capital and labour.
A good CEO with a decent grasp of technology and a little bit of money can put together a team, they are far from useless. Everyone has a role to play, it's extremely myopic to think someone can't build a company simply because they don't code.
I doubt Steve Jobs had any idea how to program an iPhone and I doubt much of his code had anything to do with the rise of Apple once he retook the reigns in the 90s.
A company of one isn't much use, the corporate form allows people to come together to build more than they could on their own.
Who really cares if someone is or isn't 'technical'. One of the important roles of a CEO is being the interface between capital and labour.
A good CEO with a decent grasp of technology and a little bit of money can put together a team, they are far from useless. Everyone has a role to play, it's extremely myopic to think someone can't build a company simply because they don't code.
I doubt Steve Jobs had any idea how to program an iPhone and I doubt much of his code had anything to do with the rise of Apple once he retook the reigns in the 90s.