The speaker believes audiences prefer hearing from product builders over paid spokespeople, while recognizing that communications expertise is a legitimate specialized skill.

“Uh, and, and like- Absolutely... you know, you know. And you have like lots of... You have Tariq at Target. Yeah. Uh, y- you know, and Lydia- Why Chris and not at DevRel? You got Lydia through Bud, you know? Yeah.”

“E- e- exactly. Yeah. But like he, he like functionally- He remains... he does the job... top of mind. He does the job. Mm-hmm. Um, and so like that, you want more of those- Yeah...”

“'cause people, people wanna hear from people in the product. Yeah. Not, not like who are like paid spo- paid shills- Mm-hmm... like paid, paid spokesperson. Yeah. And that's [laughs] Wh- which I get a lot of, and like that's fine. That's, that's a job. Somebody has to do it. Yeah. Like something like reasonably you can expect people who are, are working on engineering to not be good at it. Yeah.”

“So like you should pay someone who specializes in it, like specialty is a, is a skill. But I, I think there is a back office/front office separation that, that can e- Hm... emerge. Yeah. That is really cool. Yeah.”