[ungreased0675]

Maybe a hot take, but I think it’s better to build a successful startup with developers of average skill, intellect, and competence. You don’t need to obsess over finding genius level savants, unless the startup is a serious deep tech company. SaaS products will be fine with normal developers. Set up a process so you’re iterating and learning quickly, and it will be ok.

I’d be surprised if any startup failures were due to a dev team not being absolutely cracked. It’s always something like poor sales, PMF, refusal to pivot, lack of focus, etc.