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Mark Zuckerberg says leaders should have technical skills if they want to call themselves a tech company

Mark Zuckerberg shared his thoughts on the importance of technical skills in a tech company's leadership in a recent podcast interview. Business InsiderMark Zuckerberg thinks some self-proclaimed tech firms are lacking technical leadership.He said board members and management should have technical skills if they want to be known as a "tech" company.The Meta CEO said he's been "pretty careful" about finding the right balance in Meta's management.What makes a tech company a tech company?According to Mark Zuckerberg, the answer is the technical skills of the people in charge.The Meta CEO shared his thoughts on tech leadership during a live episode of the "Acquired" podcast that was released Wednesday.Zuckerberg, who founded Facebook at 19 from his dorm room at Harvard, said a lack of technical chops in leadership was one of the first things he noticed when he went to Silicon Valley."The CEO wasn't technical, the board of directors had no one technical on it, they had like one dude on the management team who was the head of engineering who was technical and everyone else wasn't," he said.

 

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