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Good example with Apple. But Apple was also a hardware company-- there are a few more biz things to take care of when you're a computer manufacturing startup.

FWIW, I'm speaking from experience. I'M THAT GUY-- if there is a non-technical thing to do at my startup, I do it. And if I didn't have the chops to do design, copywriting, and some light coding, I really wouldn't have 10 hours of early-stage work to do. Not that a biz guy couldn't keep himself busy-- I just think it'd be with non-critical work in the early days.

Doubtless someone will say that a good biz guy would find critical work to fill up that 10 hours per day with, but I've yet to hear someone tell me what they'd fill it with.

Am I missing something? Pick the 20 best YC startups. Rewind to day 1. Add a business guy. What would he do? I can think of a very few startups where a biz guy would be handy (like SnapTalent), but...