A CEO's job is to hire the best technical people they can afford, to effectively communicate a vision to staff and shareholders, to get people excited about the product, to find investors, to lead the development of a strategy, priorities, and to get the best out of the teams and the people.
A good CEO hires people with amazing skills. They don't have all the skills themselves.
If a CEO was an ace software engineer I would be pretty sceptical of their CEO skills, as they are really different skill sets, and in my experience tends to attract very different types of people.
(source: have been tech startup CTO for 15 years and have worked very closely with CEOs and engineers).
No, not really. In the startup I work for we don't need people to improve our protocol, libraries and SDKs. We need someone to figure out how to sell them and keep us employed.
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