• resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe
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    3 hours ago

    A founder-engineer driven company. Facebook is one of the few Big Tech firms whose founder is an engineer, and still is the CEO. Netflix is the other one where founder and co-CEO Reed Hastings was also a software engineer before starting the company. Amazon was the other example of this until recently, but it’s not the case at Google or Apple. There are good examples of smaller companies like Cloudflare, but they’re all younger than Facebook.

    Jeff Bezos was a Wall Street douche. He didn’t care about the internet or even books — he wanted data. He figured smart people like to read, and a web-based book seller was the easiest way to get data on smart people.

    Not an engineer.

    Apple was founded by the two Steves. One a brilliant electrical engineer and the other had some engineering skill. Their entire purpose, initially, was to build the PCBs from the schematics they’d been giving away to others in their proto-makerspace.

    Engineers.

    Google was started by Stanford engineers.

    Zuck is an engineering drop-out. I doubt he’s written a line of code in a decade.

    Is the author trying to be wrong about everything?

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    8 hours ago

    Because companies start with engineering, then move focus to marketing and finally move to finance, at which point what are they even doing anymore. Just let them die.