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And startups (in my limited experience) don't generally need IT / sysadmin co-founders. For my company (5 employees), we just use SaaS for any IT needs (dropbox, google apps, salesfoce, 37 signals). Combine that with our Mac setups, and your skillset isn't in great demand.

As a sysadmin who prefers startups, I must, sadly, agree, at least for pure software play early in their growth.

Fortunately, I can't imagine this to be true for a startup that would be doing said SaaS or otherwise competing in an arena where hardware or database knowledge is a significant advantage. Now to see if I can convince investors of this...