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To be a great founder, you just need to be good at one thing: building stuff that people will love and buy. The rest you can either learn along they way, or hir
by toast76 16y ago
To be a great founder, you just need to be good at one thing: building stuff that people will love and buy. The rest you can either learn along they way, or hire someone to do for you.
Dreaming of algorithms doesn't make you understand customers, help you get funding, or help you build a great team. If you love your customers, and build something they will fall in love with, the rest will follow.
- code 16y agoThat doesn't address his question. It addresses what every "founder" should have, not what determines a technical cofounder... OP, I think as long as you can build what you're trying to build and it's solid without serious issues, you're good enough. Most founders will end up hiring more technical people on to help with complex algorithms and such down the road. Not every technical founder have say, a PhD in Machine Learning for example, to build a complex semantic search engine (random example). As long as you're confident in your code to an extent to get the company up and running and be able to lead a technical team, you're probably good enough to call yourself a technical cofounder.