&quot;Can a single human produce output equivalent to 50 engineers? I would argue no.&quot;<p>One man can outperform 50 engineers (even 10 000) and often do.<p>Look at Microsoft market cap after Satya Nadella became CEO. Their market cap raises about ~100 billions dollars. You could argue that he did nothing significant and it&#x27;s all about engineers but after Steve Ballmer board members didn&#x27;t change engineers - they change executives.<p>Probably 50 engineers of Apple have bigger impact on Notes app than Tim Cook, but Apple don&#x27;t earn so much only because that app. It&#x27;s all about vision and direction, and this is why good CEO will always earn much more than engineer