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by willsmith72 929 days ago
The first stages are just sales. You're just trying to find something people will buy and that means a lot of people time.

I've found it rare that engineers will find that natural, it takes a lot of time and discomfort to get good at
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robocat 929 days ago
> just sales

This sounds like a typical engineer's summary. It is a dismissal - just like the video talks about tech being dismissed.

Recruiting a co-founder is not "just sales". The video is taking about an archetypical salesperson who still can't buy a tech guy (maybe their sales skills are not so good).

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willsmith72 929 days ago
"just" as in, an emphasis on the importance of sales, not a minimisation of it.

sales is everything at the start, and a huge amount of the reason why technical people usually need non-technical.

(i would have second thoughts about a non-tech founder without sales skills)

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