The cost is that there are a lot of people in the world who have the business skills to create a strong startup, but lack the technical background to create a c

The cost is that there are a lot of people in the world who have the business skills to create a strong startup, but lack the technical background to create a compelling product. Meanwhile there are plenty of technical founders with great product ideas, but who must (best case) spend years of their lives building HR organizations and "selling" instead of innovating. In the worst case, they'll be bad at those specific tasks and will simply fail. Today's startup culture doesn't really have a good way for productive technical founders to get their ideas into the world without doing all the heavy lifting. Maybe our current system is the best possible system; it's possible there's also room for improvement.