I believe Steve skipped several steps in team formation and jumped to "capability" aspects of the individual team members in forming the team which I consider t

I believe Steve skipped several steps in team formation and jumped to "capability" aspects of the individual team members in forming the team which I consider to be the last step before forming a core startup team. From my past startup experience, the core startup team need to consider following aspects before considering working together. 1. Passion (intrinsic motivation) - Ideally, each team members must be passionate at high level about the domain or technology or market everyone will be working in. And, the intrinsic motivation shouldn't be $$$ as the light at the end of the tunnel. 2. Chemistry - There needs to be chemistry between the team members but avoid the extreme ends of groupthink (likely to miss information that might be critical to success) and devil's advocate (likely to never agree on taking next step or becoming disenchanted). 3. Commitment - Once team members have passion for the domain, technology or market, then work together to refine the high level vision into the specific business idea, problem you will be solving etc. A team that comes up with the idea together tend to stay together. If it is one person idea that other bought into initially, that person need to continuously cheer-leading the rest otherwise at first hurdle, the people who bought in will start considering alternate options or walking away. Once you have figured out these three aspects, then consider the "capability" aspect and who will do what and what need to learn by someone to be able to fill holes.