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Every engineer printed hello world for the first time at some point, but that point isn’t the time you should put them in charge of a mission-critical codebase.
by curiousllama 6y ago
Every engineer printed hello world for the first time at some point, but that point isn’t the time you should put them in charge of a mission-critical codebase.
It’s not that they’ll never be good leaders, it’s that it’ll take a while to get there, and that timeframe might be measured in failed startups.
- hobofan 6y agoAs someone who was more or less a "Hello World engineer" (at least not far from it) when founding my first startup, I couldn't agree more. The article expands a bit on why it's not a good idea to hire a CEO, and I mostly agree with that part, though not so much with having no business person on the founding team.
- DrAwdeOccarim 6y agoAlso, I think most commenters are not weighing how much different running a biotech startup is compared to a software startup.