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I don't think so. Counter-Example: Steve Jobs.

The problem is that most technical people are also bad prioritizing things: making wrong assumptions about how the product is going to used, assuming that if it is technically difficult it must be valuable, wanting to rewrite things when that is too expensive, wanting to use the latest shinny technologies.



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