[CoffeeDregs]

    > businesspeople are experience goods

Ask a businesspeople or two whether they think a techpeople is an experience good. I'll bet you $10 they do.

Also, "experience good" seems a particularly confusing analogy here since it would seem to support my point as well as yours (me: business 'people'; you: business 'person').

    > My thesis is that you can ferret out a bad technical person more 
    > quickly and more easily than you can ferret out a 
    > bullshit businessperson

And this is where I disagree. Once you've experienced enough of tech or business folks, it's not too difficult to sort the wheat from the chaff in either. To be perfectly honest, I haven't seen a bullshit business person in quite a while. I think this is mostly because it's easy to see them and ignore them.

OTOH, I have seen plenty of bullshit technical people who've snowed the business people in their companies (I can think of one client who's been through 3 in 9 months).

    > I would consider this a fundamental difference of opinions

That's a bummer. Seems like we each had valid points and had an interesting discussion afoot.

    > probably based on different experiences

Agreed. My experience says that "we" and "they" have similar concerns and each would benefit from understanding the other's perspectives and experiences.