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0 pointsbjclark17y ago0 comments

Then he's not the CEO. He's the Founder and Product Lead, which still doesn't mean he should be designing user interfaces.

Now, if the post said "What should a budding user interface designer read?" then the other answers are all great. But that's not what the post is.

Thinking that a "CEO" needs to be the user interface designer is pretty obvious start down a VERY VERY bad path, IMO.

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swombat17y ago· 2 in thread

The founder and product lead is the CEO until the company can afford to get someone else to be the CEO. You're just splitting hairs...

I believe that it is actually quite important for the product lead to have a strong sense of design - otherwise, where is he leading the product?

wheels17y ago

That might be true in YC-ish startups, but seems to be the opposite of what I've observed in the rest of the startup world. The CEO writes figures out what the market is and how to reach it; where the buttons are is not his concern.

swombat17y ago

I guess we have differing experiences then :-) My current startup's CEO is also our founder + product lead.

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