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What? No it’s not, spanning a huge range like this is the prototypical skill set for a startup founder. It’s crazy to post a take like this on the website of Y
by snowwrestler 1y ago
What? No it’s not, spanning a huge range like this is the prototypical skill set for a startup founder.
It’s crazy to post a take like this on the website of Ycombinator, whose entire business model revolves around finding and elevating exactly those types of people.
- skeeter2020 1y agoI don't get the connection between the skillset of a startup founder and someone like Bill. While Jobs showcases taking something from vision to product, your Wozniaks and Atkinsons solved the countless problems at steps along the entire path of the journey. These seem like very complimentary but distinct skillsets. I interpreted the OP as stating there's a lack of the latter, but they didn't comment on the former.
- xeonmc 1y agoWould you say if Bill is the Woz of software or if Woz is the Bill of hardware?
- jdswain 1y agoWell Woz was pretty good at software too. He wrote a lot of the early Apple software, including Integer Basic (to write games) and the low level disk software, called RWTS for Read/Write Track/Sector.
- snowwrestler 1y agoEvery startup goes through a phase where there are very few technical people spanning a huge range of responsibilities. Not all founders or early employees are Steve Jobs. Many are like Bill Atkinson: a broadly talented person who shapes many aspects of a product in development. While Apple was not a startup at the time Bill did his work there, the Mac project very much was a startup inside Apple.