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Well... if you're running a tech company, you need a CEO who understands tech. Why is that such a surprise?

There's the idea that CEO should be a 'business person', and technical people are cogs in the machine.

This. In my country, almost all of software engineers are advised to become CTO not CEO if they want to become founders.

A vast majority of companies (most of them not very successful) don't do this.