[ActionHank]

There are an unsettling number of NA startups that seem to aggressively hire remote workers or contractors in Asia\Africa and then a couple mid to senior people in NA timezones.

They build their product and then just seem to fizzle out. My guess that the technical debt and lack of talent retention kills them.

[mywittyname]

Technical people are more valuable than the code they produce. The good ones have domain expertise and can guide product development in a way that takes advantages of emerging tech, long before it becomes mainstream, and positions the company to capitalize on market movements sooner.

Business that don't have technical leaders in their senior leadership aren't tech companies. They will fall behind quickly because they are busy chasing what's hot yesterday vs what's going to be hot soon.

10 years ago, I worked for a F500 company that fired their research team who was working on generative AI (and made solid progress) because senior leadership was all about investing in blockchain. Remember blockchain? I'm willing to bet those same leaders are all about the "AI future" now that it's in the magazines. But the problem is they are competing with companies who saw the value of generative AI years ago, before it was mainstream. Lucky for them, the company has enough money to buy the startup competition for a few billion.