Every 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

Every 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.