> The people who succeed with startups are not particularly likely to be amazing software developers. In fact, the impedance mismatch between raw programming ta

> The people who succeed with startups are not particularly likely to be amazing software developers. In fact, the impedance mismatch between raw programming talent and software startup success is one of the more irritating things about working in startups. From my experience, the people who succeed and reach the big payout tend to be the bottom quarter in terms of developer skill. They had an idea early enough, new enough or with enough impact to gain traction. Later professional developers come in to clean up their mess. Unfortunately, after the payout these low-skill (from a development sense) tend to think they were actually highly skilled. They don't repeat their first success, often they become "Angel investors". On the other hand. If you're hiring you should simply enjoy this large, un-mined vein of talent. Hopefully your competition doesn't catch on.