aside: odd he didn't mention Hewlett and Packard, Woz and Jobs, Gates and Allen, Warnock and Geschke (Adobe), the intel founders, oracle founders. Most (not all) seem to fall into tech vs. biz roles, with overlapping abilities.
I would have thought the most important benefit of co-founders is someone to bounce-n-build ideas. But the dual tech/biz roles really suggest it's based either on abilities for different tasks; or on modularizing the complexity of dealing with those different tasks.
As an example of the latter: I've recently experienced of this as a one-founder in that when negotiating a large and complex contract, I simply don't have any of that extra spark of intelligence/gumption/whatever left over to overcome the complex technical obstacles that regularly come up.
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aside: odd he didn't mention Hewlett and Packard, Woz and Jobs, Gates and Allen, Warnock and Geschke (Adobe), the intel founders, oracle founders. Most (not all) seem to fall into tech vs. biz roles, with overlapping abilities.
I would have thought the most important benefit of co-founders is someone to bounce-n-build ideas. But the dual tech/biz roles really suggest it's based either on abilities for different tasks; or on modularizing the complexity of dealing with those different tasks.
As an example of the latter: I've recently experienced of this as a one-founder in that when negotiating a large and complex contract, I simply don't have any of that extra spark of intelligence/gumption/whatever left over to overcome the complex technical obstacles that regularly come up.