[ruszki]

> And some can do both - but they are very rare, in my experience.

As far as I know basically all of the successful software companies had these quite early. Of course, you need other kinds of people too. And not everybody needs to be like that. But you absolutely need those kind of people.

But if you give me a few examples where this was not the case, and not recently, or during the dot com boom, where hype overwrote everything, then I’ll change my mind.