Almost anyone can sell anything to anyone, if the bargaining space is unrestrained. "Would you work for me for a billion dollars a year and six months holiday?

Almost anyone can sell anything to anyone, if the bargaining space is unrestrained. "Would you work for me for a billion dollars a year and six months holiday?" Lots of people are going to say yes. But are they the people you want? Do you have those sorts of resources to throw around? What about other perks of working with you to fill in the intermediate space? Extreme example, granted. But the point is that there are things you can't solve, at least not in an immediately relevant sense, just by throwing money at them. Getting a developer's probably relatively easy. Getting one you'd want; at a price you can afford... knowing next to nothing about the technical area of the business yourself? That may still be easier than selling something that doesn't exist, but it's not clear that it's orders of magnitude easier.