A pitch deck is something you make for investors. I'm not talking about investors, I'm talking about customers. Lots of management consultants can make a pitch

A pitch deck is something you make for investors. I'm not talking about investors, I'm talking about customers. Lots of management consultants can make a pitch deck. Very few can actually find people willing to pay for an MVP of a software product. That was pretty much the point of my post. Most "business" guys are bad at the business side. Making pitch decks and raising funds is not the business side - except in some people's little side-circus. Understanding what customers want and figuring out what's the minimal version that people will pay for is. You show me a management consultant that actually has 50 people willing to pay for an MVP, and that person can easily have a side startup. In fact, please put me in touch. Very, very few of them can actually do that. And even if they don't have a developer, I imagine an investor would be pretty impressed by that too. Again, I'm speaking in generalities. If your technology is "turn common trash into gasoline" or "teleports people across contintents safely", then yeah, you don't need many business skills. But if your technology is "a scalable web app", or "I forked stable diffusion and did something cute with it", then the business skills are more critical than the tech skills.