I'm not irritated. Having been in many startups, I can really appreciate a good manager and a good marketer. These people are incredibly rare, and it is much mo

I'm not irritated. Having been in many startups, I can really appreciate a good manager and a good marketer. These people are incredibly rare, and it is much more fun, (not to mention financially rewarding), to work in a company that has such people. What does irritate me is a consequence of the fact that bullshit works so well in the realms of management and marketing. It's difficult to distinguish talent from convincingly-mouthed empty words, and as a result you get idiots running companies into the ground. That's what irritates me. Especially since the idiocy is visible to me, an engineer, and not to the VCs, and sometimes not to the other execs. As for one set of skills "blowing away" another -- you need both to build a successful company.