If you were launching a technology or developing a product, would you rather have five great engineers rather than 1,000 average engineers? The former... What

If you were launching a technology or developing a product, would you rather have five great engineers rather than 1,000 average engineers? The former... What's interesting to me is that the author makes statements like this apparently based solely on his intuition, which seems to be completely uninformed by any experience with programming, and dubious analogies to sports and investment banking. Not to mention inexplicable assumptions that (1) great programmers are, on average, less likely to be able to work well on teams and (2) the ability to work on teams is encapsulated in the evaluation of a programmer (at least in the minds of Zuckerberg and Andreessen).