Don't you think the lesson could be applied to startups? Do you try to work with the co-founders you have, or do you search incessantly for the perfect one (ie.

Don't you think the lesson could be applied to startups? Do you try to work with the co-founders you have, or do you search incessantly for the perfect one (ie. Bill Gates, or Wozniak)? Do you wait for the perfect, home-run idea, or do you pick one you have and make it work? I've heard so many people in real jobs moan about how they would do a startup if only they had the right idea. Or that they didn't think they and their potential partners could learn enough about business to make it. They're waiting for the perfect opportunity and circumstances, as if such things fall out of the sky magically, instead of being built and molded by hard work.