[ThalesX]

I relate to your point of view and vented my frustration at the article.

You mention companies fostering and rewarding and I wholeheartedly agree. But not just engineers, anything that creates value for the customer.

I believe that the best products have the whole mission aligned and going to the process of analyzing, testing, implementing, monitoring... then you don’t need superstars, you just need good people with a clear positioning and direction. I think it’s a simpler recipe than fishing for diamonds.

Getting an ‘awesome product guy’ cause you read it in a post is not going to create a magical unicorn that you can ride to VC-Land.

You need a clear positioning of your company towards the product and the users and then you don’t need John Carmack, Steve Jobs and Carnegie in your tram to launch your new CRM, you just need to listen to your users and perhaps disregard a lot of blog posts along the way.