Both could be right. You might not have had the skills they were looking for, but could build a successful company (lead generation isn't algorithm intensive, i

Both could be right. You might not have had the skills they were looking for, but could build a successful company (lead generation isn't algorithm intensive, is it?). I've seen exactly that happen more than once. Shipping something and running the business matters far more in many cases because the technical challenge in most companies is very little.