So you want to scale up a new venture with (potentially) risky, low wage talent? That sounds like a bad bargain. I would wage that there's not that many interes

So you want to scale up a new venture with (potentially) risky, low wage talent? That sounds like a bad bargain. I would wage that there's not that many interesting "uber for windows" companies, versus those with at least a modicum of challenging problems. And one of the biggest challenges is managing software complexity at scale, which is almost inevitable in a software startup. I get that the typical $220k dev probably has a different mindset than the one you'd look to when building a new company. That said, I've focused most of my career on being the 2-5th employee and helping guide startups to viability. I've been able to do that while still pulling in reasonable $$ and hours to make my lifestyle work. Maybe this alternate model is gone now with the credit crunch, but it does seem like we're missing out on a workable yet oddly unpopular approach here.