Why founders fail: the product CEO paradox
Joel Spolsky (remember him :-) gave us a great example of how Bill Gates did product reviews in the early '90s: <a href="http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/06/16.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/06/16.html</a>  E.g.:<p>"<i>He didn't meddle in software if he trusted the people who were working on it, but you couldn't bullshit him for a minute because he was a programmer. A real, actual, programmer.</i>"<p>And the article details how those two were intimately linked.