I’m borrowing very liberally from a friend of mine’s old blog entry: How do you find a badass co-founder, Part 2
CTO
- Really scrappy leader of people
- Super smart, and also super communicative
- Only needs pizza and coke to survive
How does this play in reality? I suspect not too much for a VC funded firm.
What really counts isn’t the # of lines they can produce, it’s the # of lines the people they recruit can produce. When you pair this with John Cooks 3.8% unemployment rate in Seattle - it becomes an even more statiscally significant number.
That being said, I would love to have all of the characteristics Andrew has outlined - but if you have a product that relies on first mover advantage - how do you hold out until you have all of the magical pieces? Doesn’t product outway perfection?
