>cut down to 100 developers and gaining a technical focus... mind you, maybe that just means I want "hacker school" more than "startup school" I think you're a

>cut down to 100 developers and gaining a technical focus... mind you, maybe that just means I want "hacker school" more than "startup school" I think you're absolutely right about you wanting a "hacker" school. I'm involved in a startup from the business, marketing, and front-end side and while I have a very deep and sincere respect for the time and mastery it takes to become a great engineer/developer, in my opinion there is much more to building a great product/company/startup (whichever word you prefer) than amazing tech. pmarca expressed it well in a talk to Stanford's MBA class in that he thinks the post-dot-com pendulum swung too far to the side of purely technical founders. He believes that when engineers and technical founders realize their efforts can be greatly complimented by inspired and business driven leaders, we will see the greatest innovations. I strongly agree with that sentiment.