I suspect (ok, I know from current experience) that it helps, when you have just a small team (or a lonely solo adventure, in my case) and you're living on rame

I suspect (ok, I know from current experience) that it helps, when you have just a small team (or a lonely solo adventure, in my case) and you're living on ramen, to have at least one founder who is enthusiastic enough about the technology side to actually make progress even in a perfect storm of morale-killing events.