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Bezos & Gates are brilliant businessmen. Woz is a superb engineer, a genius of an engineer, but Jobs truly built the Apple that is today. Brin & Page were highly capable and smart researchers and scientists, not programmers or "hackers" as the term goes here.

You're still not getting my point. Nevermind.

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I get your point, I'm just disagreeing with it.

If you want to startup in a lightweight / agile fashion, why have an "idea guy" when you can have someone who can execute AND code?

Beyond that, I think that in high-tech it's far more common to have a company founded by a hacker than it is an MBA. I don't have concrete numbers on that, so it's purely my opinion.

I'm an idea guy, I'm also a coder. I can write code, that works. But I'm by no means a hacker. I'm not an MBA type, will never be. Once you're done writing some code, the prototype, something that works decently well - and to do that you don't need to be a nerdy hacker - you need skills that go far beyond the bits/bytes and if-else loopy world of programming.

It's really not that difficult to build a web product or service these days.

I realized my own folly - I certainly haven't built a profitable company or a popular product yet. I'm in the process but far from it yet. So I should stop commenting on what it takes to build one :)

That word executioner, I do not think it means what you think it means.

Yea, I realized that :D

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