In fact this NY Times article suggests long time head of software at Apple is also on the short list of candidates.
Anecdotally every tech company I have worked for run by a CEO with real world skills; like hardware engineering or in one case, a former surgeon; were great to work at.
Whenever my employer has leadership that only relates to the world entirely through abstraction; like MBAs, software engineers; those companies crashed and burned.
dzonga•16h ago
highly technical with a bunch of technical wins and organizational wins (Asia supply chain, m-chips etc)
hopefully the guy if he takes over is assertive on the software front. the software recently has been a mess.
onemoresoop•14h ago