The title seems like bait. I think far more often (perhaps not as true in the valley, I don't really know) that business founders are the ones who's value is ov

The title seems like bait. I think far more often (perhaps not as true in the valley, I don't really know) that business founders are the ones who's value is overemphasized. It's so bad that I regularly see "idea" people trying to justify majority (if not total) ownership while bringing almost nothing (often not even business sense) to the table. I completely agree with balance, but the truth is that in the majority of businesses the preferred approach is to make the "do-ers" employees. The fact that the pendulum has swung the other way a bit seems ok to me if only to highlight the fact that motivated engineers can start and manage very successful businesses without the typical "business" guys. However, just like I feel that organizations that only value people in business and sales roles for executive positions and partnerships are crippling themselves by their own arrogance and limited vision, I also can see how a bunch of CS grads playing business in their spare time while hacking with the rest of it, may also be limiting their organizations in a similar way. The goal should simply be to find valuable talented people that can fill all of your organizations needs and then treat them like you actually value their contribution to the business. You know, by letting them own a piece of that value.