>Given that software teams are expensive

In many companies there are 3 to 5 other people per developer (QA, agile masters, PO, PM, BA, marketing, sales, customer support etc.). The costs aren't driven just by the developer salaries.

A CEO can cost as much as 10 developers, sometimes more.

That is why I respect Zuckerberg: he did not participate in Google's and Apple's salary fixing and he is willing to pay new tech hires insane money.

There is something different about CEOs that came from tech.