Maybe I didn't make it clear enough.

In the first quote he basically says MySpace didn't have the engineers to save the company.

In the second quote he basically says engineers are not what make the social industry tick. Yes, he's talking about Apple and Google here, but he's contradicting what he said.

Regardless I'm not sure why he said the first quote in the at all. The problem they had, had nothing to do with Engineers, but had everything to do with the company culture.