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"The best business guys are dumb as hell" -- this generalization in particular is egregious. It's easy to dismiss something that you don't understand. This ar
by vm 14y ago
"The best business guys are dumb as hell" -- this generalization in particular is egregious.
It's easy to dismiss something that you don't understand.
This article may have been the least thoughtful one I read on HN this year.
- freework 14y agoI didn't mean that as an insult at all. I'm not dismissing business people at all. Heck, if I could trade my computer skills for charisma sills, I'd do it in a heartbeat. As the "business guy" in a startup, your job is to be enthusiastic and positive so you can get investor money. Intelligence only gets in the way of that. The more you understad, the more you have to worry about. To the people saying "I know lots of Type-A programmers who are great programmers", well I disagree. I've never worked with a programmer who was great and charismatic. A good musician becomes his instrument. A good artist becomes his paint and paintbrush. A great programmer becomes his computer.