Why on earth do you think you can generalize your anecdotal experience to conclude tech people are any more arrogant than doctors or staff in whatever field? W

Why on earth do you think you can generalize your anecdotal experience to conclude tech people are any more arrogant than doctors or staff in whatever field? We can agree there is a massive disconnect, but there is plenty of arrogance to go around and I’ve seen it on both sides in these situations. Moreover, whoever’s arrogance it is, is only one part of the problem, and I think not the largest one. Just the legal and regulatory hurdles alone pour molasses all over what would normally be a fast moving startup effort. Worse, some products or services have to worry about the reasons the bureaucracy exists in the first place: What level of risk mitigation is sufficient to keep from killing people? Here’s a hint, it’s a level that doesn’t speed up your time to market. There can also be a lot of time wasted by people who may be very talelented within their specialties, but require lots of hand holding to ramp up on the medical issues, technologies, product design and user experience (which still always exist), and business strategies depending on their background. Ideally you have at least one person with great expertise in one, and training and/or a knack for the others, who can see the big picture, and everyone else must make honest assesments of where they can really add the most value. We always talk around here about how ideas are cheap and the team and execution are what matter. Based on some time I’ve spent with doctors and entrepreneurs in these scenarios, my impression is that maxim is even more apt in this space.