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Your solution to bad business co-founders is for them to become sales people?

The traits and failures you are describing could be attributed to anyone including an engineer.

A good business person moves mountains while keeping builders free to build.



Business founders have to bring the distribution, technical founders bring the product.

Require both.


The technical cofounder becomes less important as the company grows through.


Can you say a bit more here, genuinely curious as to why.


I made an observation that, as a company grows, there are more opportunities for increasing revenue from the business side than from the technical side.

Technical is important, but just saying that it is easier for the business side to toot their horn.


Doesn't that make them less important? Just hire people to do that, it is possible to hire business people.

For example if you want to sell to X market, hire a person from those companies, that isn't rocket science.


Business doesn't scale if tech can't :)


Depends who's wanting that look.

Technology doesn't stop scaling in complexity the larger you get, or the business hits a ceiling on what it can hit in revenue and growth.

It's cool if b-school teaches other wise :)

Both the business founder and technical founder has to grow.

Which one can learn to scale to the moon easier?

I wish all my friends well on any side of co-founding.

The thing that doesn't work is trying to grift someone else's hard work and leverage them.

Builders build.. sellers sell.

Learn to deliver and ship consistently or someone will.


No idea why this is downvoted, its completely true. Only inexperienced people think otherwise


Because it's not. Anyone who fails to grow, technical or business gets replaced in funded startups anyways, not just technical.

Something like over 90% of startup founders get replaced as CEO if it grows faster than they can.




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