I’m realizing more and more that it’s rarely technological advances that make any particular company successful and impactful. It’s more often the business acumen.
Were “nerds” with coding skills really ever the best ones to be starting companies? How many successful ones were founded without leadership being handed over to “suits” pretty early on?
You need nerds to build something at a baseline competency that you can sell it, then you need to be the greasiest salesman ever to sell it harder once you've gotten a foothold.
People genuinely do not care about product quality, doubly so in the world of software (see: Crowdstrike is still in business).
It would be interesting to see the success rates of startups based on how early on leadership includes MBAs. Or based on how early on they have people with corporate experience at the top.
Does baseline competency stop being the differentiator after seed? Series A? B?
Were “nerds” with coding skills really ever the best ones to be starting companies? How many successful ones were founded without leadership being handed over to “suits” pretty early on?