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Values are so incredibly important when it comes to working with people. When you and the people you work with wake up in the morning, not just for the paycheck, but also because you believe in what you're doing, you avoid many of the pitfalls less aligned teams suffer from.

Is it more important to have the best technical person possible, regardless of culture fit? Or, a good technical person who believes what you believe, values what you value, and is a great culture fit? Unless the best are absolutely necessary I would pick the good culture fit any day of the week.

Had I answered questions like the ones in the article with previous co-founders we would have saved some bad experiences and likely iterated to success much faster.