I generally don’t either. CEOs are the lead singers; asking them about the technical complexities of how to play a crazy complex drum solo will likely result in a more technical answer than what the caterer would know, but isn’t going to be quality level of response that the drummer could tell you. But everyone treats them like it’s straight from the drummer’s mouth.

CEOs are business folks. Some of them may have started on the tech side, but they aren’t sitting around doing the work all day; they’re learning about the info through meetings or documents, possibly even meetings several layers abstracted from the original source. But we’re bringing THEM into all the conversations about this stuff.

Again, they’re at least better than some random webdev from an unrelated company, but Experts in the field are going to be looking at their statements going “eh…”