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I was looking at the business model of Bumble, which involves the freemium model, ads, with a majority of the revenue coming from paid premium services within the app. Aside from that, the business is implemented through a mobile app or website a user can access. Suppose you take a quick look at Bumble. In that case, it seems that a majority of the focus to run the company would be engineering or technical based, as the entire business's existence falls on the ability of the mobile or web-based platforms to function correctly. It also seems that as Bumble adds more features, this would require more engineering, and the team of engineerings and designers would need to pair together to bring the features and updates to realization, which is inherently technical. It seemed logical that having an engineering-based CEO would make sense due to its nature requiring a lot of technical focus. If the company had technical issues or needed an engineering feature added, the more experienced engineer would guide the junior engineers or guide them on an efficient way to implement the app or website's new features. I am asking respectfully, and I know this question may be ignorant or naive, but can someone explain what Whitney Wolfe, the Bumble CEO, would actually do as CEO if she is not technical or engineering-based. I believe I know the answer, but hearing more input from other people would help me understand. I am curious and interested in this question, and it would be great if you could help me understand. Would she focus on hiring and delegate the technical roles, etc.?