I always thought this was PG's greatest gift to the tech world. To horribly generalize - prior to YC "business" people had a patronizing attitude toward developers. They were expensive assets - comparable to hw/sw and data-centers - that were required to successfully launch and grow a startup. But they weren't invited to the strategic table too often. They didn't get business. I don't know this to be a fact but I alw…
Many really successful people were and are engineers. Also many big companies are led by managers who started as engineers.