SaaStr: 82 of the 100 fastest-growing AI-native startups have technical CEOs, against 49% in the 2013 unicorn club.

The September 12 piece puts 86% of founders as technical against 59% a decade ago, and uses Databricks and Snowflake as the case study: Databricks promoted Berkeley professor Ali Ghodsi to $190B and 80%+ growth, while Snowflake hired outside operators twice and then saw product revenue growth go from 26% to 34% after engineer Sridhar Ramaswamy took over. The counterexample is offered honestly, with Bill McDermott's ServiceNow posting 24.5% subscription growth on $15.8B and a stock down roughly a third.