"Wolves" -- if you accept the concept -- are basically the anti-entrepreneur. We're talking about engineers who get head-down in deep problems, without the inte

"Wolves" -- if you accept the concept -- are basically the anti-entrepreneur. We're talking about engineers who get head-down in deep problems, without the interest or ability to turn them into actual products. I learned the hard way that when a startup's key differentiator is "run by a brilliant engineer/scientist/mathematician," back away slowly. Someone on this thread mentions Woz as a prototypical "wolf," which is probably right -- what made him work within the later Apple environment is that he could work on very focused, discrete projects such as the Disk ][. Compare with Burrell Smith, who was equally brilliant and equally idiosyncratic, but was able to function within the confines of the Mac development team (albeit with a certain degree of effort by management).