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You're missing the point: They still would have to run the business. Meaning, not do what they set out in life to do, namely engineering. Where they are, they can pretty much just focus on the problems at hand and do research. All of the other crap is done for them.


As someone who transitioned from 100% business/marketing side to 25% business and 75% development, actually I am not missing the point.

There are many upsides to running and owning a tech business and for some of the engineers those upsides can outweigh the negatives.




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