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Utterly false, and a dangerous belief held by many business-oriented types who think that engineers are a dime a dozen, and their ideas are what really matter.
by dsuth 13y ago
Utterly false, and a dangerous belief held by many business-oriented types who think that engineers are a dime a dozen, and their ideas are what really matter.
In this case, no Woz = no Apple.
- antimagic 13y agoUh huh. OK, firstly, I'm an engineer, not a "business-oriented type". Secondly, how many times do we read accounts of successful Y-Combinator founders saying that their biggest error was trying to code solutions at the start of their companies instead of getting an MVP out there? Even PG has said so about Viaweb. The harsh reality for engineers is that engineering isn't as important as we like to think it is when it comes to building the Next Big Thing. Bringing it back to Jobs and Wozniak, Jobs didn't need a brilliant engineer for the Apple I, merely a highly competent one, which makes Woz much easier to replace in the story than Jobs, who really was a one-of-a-kind business leader.