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Comment by lgleason | Hacker News Reader

Partpic was founded by two non tech founders and Amanzon aqui hired them. Not sure what technology they are brining to the table there.....and of course the buyout was for a non disclosed amount... Typical Atlanta.

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Dismissing others' success, minimizing the importance of non-technical founders (vision/recruiting/deal-closing), downplaying well-executed technology (computer vision work by https://twitter.com/nashlie_s), and a dismissive arrogant tone... Typical HN commenter.

Well said! Total respect for her accomplishment.

"he boomed me" - lgleason

I met one of PartPic’s founders at a mutual friend’s wedding last year. Sure, maybe he wasn’t a coder, but darn was he was smart. Before I founded my latest startup I built a “skunkworks” style startup in a larger public company after being acquihired. Have to be honest, the hardest part was navigating the parent org, not building the product. PartPic’s founder and I had a super interesting conversation about getting bigger companies to actually care about your internal project. The fact they even got this to a launch is impressive.

Built by 'non tech' founders?

So was Airbnb, Product Hunt (acq by Angel List) and a little dating app you may have heard of called Tinder...

I actually know the founders of this company. Super smart, tons of hustle and product focused.

What does 'typical Atlanta' mean, btw?

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