I think you confuse the founder&#x2F;owner status with the work role. I would rephraze this - you can never make good money as a salaried employee (google with it&#x27;s early-stock-millionaires is an exception).<p>The second question is, how can a company be succesfull? I know several very succesfull software businesses which were not directed by software engineers. The question about competence to run a company is far more complex than saying if domaim specialists won&#x27;t run the show it will tank.