In a startup in the process of building a product, a business guy is the biggest drag a company has. You might as well swim across a lake with anchors tied to y

In a startup in the process of building a product, a business guy is the biggest drag a company has. You might as well swim across a lake with anchors tied to your legs. They provide almost no value to the company and instead stand around advocating pulling cash from development (outsource!) and putting it towards something the company doesn't need yet like marketing. (This statement is based on personal experience in various startups from both internal and external viewpoints) A tech guy can build and run a company, it doesn't take a genius to do it. He may fumble a little bit more and have a bigger learning curve for things like accounting and business law, but even business guys have the same issues. The only time a business guy can make a solid contribution is only when there are both customers and money, not before. Bottom line, if he's not writing code, he's not helping enough. It's not a 2 way street in terms of symbiotic needs between business and tech people. Business people need tech people or they have no business, tech people only need business people once they already have a business.