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Yeah and then the non-technical co-founder treats you like you're worthless because you're "just a programmer"
A tale as old as time. Gotta love the classic spin on the same trope of “the C suite drives the sales tho” to justify their insane salaries and bonuses. like they’d have anything to sell in the first place.
Yeah and then the non-technical co-founder treats you like you're worthless because you're "just a programmer"
That may be more of a personality conflict. There's no more important choice than who you co-found with, and both parties should have high regard for each other's value to the business.
Yeah and then the non-technical co-founder treats you like you're worthless because you're "just a programmer"
Might I suggest not being "just a programmer" then? In a startup it's extremely important for founders to wear many hats and share many burdens. If you're the person that just goes off into a cave and emerges with beautiful code 6 weeks later and then expects everything to be great - you're wrong. There's a massive amount of foundational work to do to support a startup that technical people don't even think about.
I wonder what portion of Hacker News users aren't technical. I thought this headline meant a technical founder needs a technical co-founder even.
Judging by how many believe procedural text generators are viable programmers, i’d say a lot of hn users arent technical.
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Might I suggest not being "just a programmer" then? In a startup it's extremely important for founders to wear many hats and share many burdens. If you're the person that just goes off into a cave and emerges with beautiful code 6 weeks later and then expects everything to be great - you're wrong. There's a massive amount of foundational work to do to support a startup that technical people don't even think about.
As someone who's rarely been "just a programmer" or "just a designer," that hasn't stopped me from being viewed as such by managers if it's convenient for them to mentally classify me as such.
Yeah and then the non-technical co-founder treats you like you're worthless because you're "just a programmer"
which could mean soon-to-be-underperforming companies fail to attract technical co-founders
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A tale as old as time. Gotta love the classic spin on the same trope of “the C suite drives the sales tho” to justify their insane salaries and bonuses. like they’d have anything to sell in the first place.
Yes, you need to make and sell things. They're both difficult.