I've never had a positive experience with a co-worker or employee who "just kinda does stuff." I have had the pleasure to work with a number of people who do m

I've never had a positive experience with a co-worker or employee who "just kinda does stuff." I have had the pleasure to work with a number of people who do many things well, and adapt in rapid succession to the kinds of situations startups find themselves in. These are the people you want to be surrounded by when you're really fighting it out early on. Need a coder to wear a sysadmin hat for a few weeks? Done. Need a designer to crunch a spreadsheet? No problem. Need a technical founder to fix an HR problem? Handled. Over the course of a day or a month or a year, a key person might do all sorts of tasks, with their variance in role inversely proportional to the age of the startup. But what they do in the short term is clearly identifiable. No dark matter to be found.