‘Find the smartest technologist in the company and make them CEO

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>Find the smartest technologist

How would a company do this when they are run by tech illiterates? They don't know what they don't know. What I see from one company to the next is the smartest passed over for somewhat smart people who have seniority.

In the long run, better things win. Increasingly companies are being founded by non-tech illiterates and eventually those will be most companies and organizations.

http://www.paulgraham.com/mean.html does a great job explaining why this is.

Historically things weren't like that, but they are changing fast.

I don't think they're being mean, they just aren't tech literate enough to know the difference between good and great. Which is why I see people job hop for a while, only to try their luck at a start up where they can get in on the ground floor and become the CTO or vice president of something. I guess once they're in that club, they try to job hop again into bigger and better companies.

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