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Unfortunately, didn’t have the talent internally to do that. Running the biz required a set of generalist biz skills and the company was mostly specialists.
by asanwal 2y ago
Unfortunately, didn’t have the talent internally to do that.
Running the biz required a set of generalist biz skills and the company was mostly specialists.
- statictype 2y agoWasn’t your dad also a specialist in that sense (the technical founder as you put it)? Great writing, btw.
- asanwal 2y agoThanks. Dad was a specialist on the engineering/science side. He learned and grinded enough over time to become quite dangerous on the business stuff. I guess he'd be what some folks would call T-shaped. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-shaped_skills https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-shaped_skills