Didn't Bezos start with a team? I think we need to distinguish between "one-founder" and "one-man" startups. Speaking as a one-man startup, I think the problem

Didn't Bezos start with a team? I think we need to distinguish between "one-founder" and "one-man" startups. Speaking as a one-man startup, I think the problem is worse than skills-sets, and worse than the costs of switching between tasks; it's also values - not in terms of ethics, but in terms of where your attention goes. eg. attention to detail vs. big picture; the product vs. the market; the solution vs. the problem. One person definitely can do it all (and it's getting easier) but it's more than twice as hard as having two people. However, whether it's easier or harder for two people is less important than whether it is easy enough for one particular person to do it.