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>Technical co-founders are perfectly capable of learning all aspects of business. If you assume the technical co-founder doesn't need to sleep or has a magical
by derektank 2y ago
>Technical co-founders are perfectly capable of learning all aspects of business.
If you assume the technical co-founder doesn't need to sleep or has a magical source of extra time, sure. But in the real world, failing to bring a product or service to market at the appropriate time can be the difference between failure and success. I certainly agree that a technical co-founder's knowledge is harder to replicate in the abstract (OP's story about a co-founder suggesting an 80:20 split is nuts) but trying to be a jack of all trades can leave you a master of none.
- j45 2y agoI assume neither, and have business skills to found and scale business and architecture as a technical cofounder. It's just that thing - getting the reps in to learn. Not just a function of time, but picking the things that have a greater chance of helping you grow. Depending on who you ask, one mark of a CEO is to be a generalist to keep everything moving, guided, supported, looking ahead. The age of the specialist went away before covid. Now the generalists see patterns and connections between different arenas in similar ways.