[falien]

1 seems much more targeted at entrepreneurs. I would expect most decent developers to have at least tangential knowledge of him because its hard to avoid when frequenting tech blogs, but I would give no positive points for reading him. From what I've seen his posts are mostly self-serving / self-praising and I've gotten very little value out of any of them.

[diN0bot]

i've also found an inverse relationship between blog reading and hacking, both in myself and others. i'd almost take off points if a new hire was too much into online procrastination or vanity blogging.

certainly there are developers i respect who are fairly ocd when it comes to reading hn and reddit. it's just stuff to do when chillin'; to each his own.

big ups to building tools and open source communities, though. getting things done is the awesome.

[richesh]

I believe the point of the question was to see if I had heard of him, not necessarily if I agree or read his blog.

The question asked said "#startups" so I assumed it was referring to hiring founders or founding employees (your first employees). Founding employees should have similar qualities as the founders. They could very well have started their own company if they didn't come join your startup.

[falien]

"Founding employees should have similar qualities as the founders."

Why in the world would you want that? I wouldn't think even two co-founders should be particularly similar. They need to mesh well certainly, but compatibility is often inversely correlated to similarity, especially if you need an A-type leader. Could you imagine a steve jobs starting a company with another steve jobs, instead of a woz?