On a side detail, in defence of sales and marketing skills:
Some useful things they bring is the ability to identify what features of your product are important, or unique, and what customers care about and want. Ie understanding the market. Thereby the ability to improve products and create new ones that are useful.
[Added:] Oh, and also to actually get products to the attention of people who would want them! You own lots of useful products that you would never have heard about or bought were it not for sales & marketing skills. Products don’t sell themselves, and only some market themselves (e.g. by word of mouth—which only works for products that become popular among people you know).
On a side detail, in defence of sales and marketing skills:
Some useful things they bring is the ability to identify what features of your product are important, or unique, and what customers care about and want. Ie understanding the market. Thereby the ability to improve products and create new ones that are useful.
[Added:] Oh, and also to actually get products to the attention of people who would want them! You own lots of useful products that you would never have heard about or bought were it not for sales & marketing skills. Products don’t sell themselves, and only some market themselves (e.g. by word of mouth—which only works for products that become popular among people you know).