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Engineers think they could do the business part of they "really wanted to", but don't believe MBAs could do their job. They think they are smarter. Also there'

• Jach 8y ago
  To be fair, the startup mythos canon supports this. Many examples of programmers learning the business stuff on the fly as they scale, not out of a sense of "if I wanted to" but "now I need to". The opposite? If there are examples, they're not part of the mythos.
  • jacques_chester 8y ago
    It's generally easier to learn business on the fly if 1) your gross margin is enormous, 2) you fluke into a massive network effect that can scale incredibly quickly because it is not bound by space and matter or 3) someone hands you literally millions of dollars in exchange for equity. Not debt, which comes with serious legal teeth, but equity, for which the worst threat is being upset you didn't get rich. Ask someone who has built a cleaning business, or runs a restaurant, or who works as a roofing contractor, whether business is easy.