| >If you want to compare two sides of a founding partnership, the facts is the technical cofounder, early on, is more valuable member of the founding team. Hmm. Let's try this on:
"if you want to compare two sides of a marriage, the facts are that the wife early on in the more valuable member of the founding team." Nope, doesn't work. There are way, way too many dead "great products" for me to buy that argument. >-Y Combinator is what, a 3-month bootcamp to teach founders what they need to know about running a startup. If Y combinator were doing such a fantabulous job of giving technical co founders the basics, their success rate would be much, much higher. >You can learn a lot about being the non-technical founder by trying your hand at starting a company. The same is not true about writing product. You can learn a lot about running a company by running one. But you're going to waste a lot of time and money if you've never done it before. There are also a lot of YC graduates looking for heads of marketing because they've completely cocked it up. If you only knew the kinds of basic dumb ass questions about marketing they don't understand. I'm not saying it's not possible to do both or that business can't be learned. I am saying the lack of respect towards anyone not a programmer will be the end of the silicon valley species. That's what pushes all new blood out, and what will cause your own downfall. If you think you will continue to have market power, given that pretty much every VC is begging the government to fix immigration (aka hire more cheap labor), you're delusional. Perhaps having a business co founder who understands economics might be useful at that point. |
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