tl;dr -- We started with the dynamic duo of the businessman and the engineer. Recently we added the designer. Now if want to continue to create products that scale into billion dollar companies, create thousands of jobs and transform society, we need to add domain experts to the founding DNA of Technology Companies.
A bunch of us were talking about this over the table at the Chez JJ Hacker Hostel. Apparently, there are a lot of horrible medical apps. This is because domain experts can't communicate well with doctors. So some doctor with minimal programming experience writes some software. By chance, it takes off and gets huge, growing into spaghetti code in the process, adding to the reasons why the best hackers dont' work on medical software.
You can apply this to any number of disciplines.
> These founders don't want to change to world. They just want to make enough money to provide for their family, buy a car, or earn their freedom. These people are the information economy's mom and pop business owners, just more technologically leveraged and profitable than their brick & mortar predecessors.
Does that mean that such people will be as vulnerable to economic and social change as mom & pop businesses of the past?
> I believe the decrease in big ideas for software companies is the result of homogeneous founding teams in the Valley.
It does seem to me that people are looking for a few specific scenester types, and rather quickly throw you into the "not applicable here" bin based on rather shallow signaling.
A bunch of us were talking about this over the table at the Chez JJ Hacker Hostel. Apparently, there are a lot of horrible medical apps. This is because domain experts can't communicate well with doctors. So some doctor with minimal programming experience writes some software. By chance, it takes off and gets huge, growing into spaghetti code in the process, adding to the reasons why the best hackers dont' work on medical software.
You can apply this to any number of disciplines.
> These founders don't want to change to world. They just want to make enough money to provide for their family, buy a car, or earn their freedom. These people are the information economy's mom and pop business owners, just more technologically leveraged and profitable than their brick & mortar predecessors.
Does that mean that such people will be as vulnerable to economic and social change as mom & pop businesses of the past?
> I believe the decrease in big ideas for software companies is the result of homogeneous founding teams in the Valley.
It does seem to me that people are looking for a few specific scenester types, and rather quickly throw you into the "not applicable here" bin based on rather shallow signaling.