[pmoriarty]

It's not clear what this person actually did. It sounds like it's his employees/partners did all the work.

[CyberRabbi]

The others were diggers, he told them where to dig.

[IG_Semmelweiss]

And he went and bought the shovels for all.

Abd he got the money for the permits and the bureaucracy.

And he actually motivated everyone to dig in the exact place they did.

[ThePadawan]

That is a delightful expression. I think if you told this to 5 people, there would be 5 different attitudes arising from it. I'm going to have to steal that!

[paulcole]

From my reading of the article it sounds like sales and product vision — both as essential as coding.

[Rastonbury]

Yeah he admits as much, he didn't do any software work. He 'just' a sales guy

Got 150k seed, landed a 40k contract without a product. As for team, he convinced a potential cofounder to sell his house and move across the country and hired his ex-boss, just to start

[sriram_sun]

2000 phone calls. Count me out after two. I somehow still manage to pay the bills consulting :).