I see an interesting schism in the discussion - there are two camps here.

One is normative: listen to tech CEO's if you want to predict what will happen.

Another is positive: let CEO's tell you what ought to happen.

What happened here was the original commenter talked about listening to Reid for normative reason but the conversation got derailed into ignoring CEO's for positive statements.

This is something I see often where one talks about what would happen but people barge in to signal their ethics and morals instead.