The comments in here are hilarious. If you think the CEO doesn't matter in a company you have never been on a board of a company and had the responsibility to hire and fire them.
Think about that statement, just for 5 seconds. Please.
You do realize very, very few people meet this criteria. And their opinions still matter because they are impacted.
Your statement is absurd because being impacted has nothing to do with having the knowledge to talk about a subject.
Cool!
I much rather read insightful knowledge from people that know what they are talking about.
And that is my opinion.
Uninformed opinions teaches me nothing.
It really does not matter at all what those people think about this topic and it doesn't matter what percentage of people this excludes. The topic is hiring decisions for CEOs. If you aren't hiring CEOs, then you don't get a say.
You may think this isn't nice or isn't fair or whatever but it does not change the fact that those people get absolutely zero say on this topic.
Hacker news is full of bright ambitious folks who think they are very smart, or they can change the world, or they can make a lot of money. It's all about their personal impact.
HN celebrates individual contribution. Which is fine and good.
That said, I'd argue that many folks here would benefit from spending time on how to be better leaders, or gasp, managers and executives.
Most people, by definition, aren't going to be 10x or 100x engineers. But a good manager, supervisor, executive will make everyone around them better.