From your comment it&#x27;s not quite clear if you feel it would be ideal to have fewer scientists or for the CEO to be a scientist, but I&#x27;m guessing the later.<p>A couple of years ago while promoting his book in the south bay, Peter Thiel spoke about his experience with scientist-lead biotech companies: &quot;While engineer-lead companies are sometimes poor in terms of business sense, scientist-lead companies tend to be <i>catastrophic</i>&quot;.