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by Swizec
5158 days ago
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>Let’s face it – good hackers are scarce resource. That’s why you are talking to me. However conferences, meetups and other places where startup industry players gathers to escape the daylight are filled with available marketers and business monkeys. I used to think like this. Then I interned at Doublerecall. Seeing those business guys do their jobs ... I was figuratively blown away. I mean wow. They worked harder on business development than I have ever seen a hacker work on even their most favorite projects. Fact of the matter is, business work involves a lot of ... stuff. Everything is hands on, very little of it can be automated, you're dealing with people all the time and, to be perfectly honest, there probably isn't a hacker out there who could really work as a business guy. We're just too lazy. Nothing about taking tens upon tens of meetings a week says "replaceable" to me. |
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The fact that we have a "startup industry" is slightly unnerving, and "players" in that industry even moreso. I suspect that both 'developers' and 'business monkeys' who try to get involved in this 'industry' and hang with the 'players' too much aren't the sort of people you want as part of your team.
So, yeah, in one sense you're right to criticize the capabilities of 'business guys' attending 'startup conferences', but the same criticism might be levelled at non-business people at those same conferences. The truly capable - those executing in their chosen fields - probably won't be at too many of those events on a regular basis.