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Katherine
@keccers.eth
Does a founder have to be a good IC? Or is it enough to be a talker and a seller?
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
it depends, but for tech companies rare to not have a founder who can spike on 1-2 things really well
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Sam (crazy candle person) ✦
@samantha
I think at first yeah! Cuz you don’t have a team. Lots of founders I work with doing their first hire have problems letting go and being able to delegate then consequently hire Post 10 ppl u become more of a talker (to ur team) and seller (founder led sales)
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Joe Petrich 🟪
@jpetrich
Anyone can be a founder. To be a successful and happy one though I think you need to be an above average IC at something. I think that something could be BD/sales or marketing though and doesn't have to be engineering or product
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Will
@wg
Think they have to understand the product very deeply, hard to do that without having built/spent years working on something similar, but with that expertise built could delegate
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Sachin
@sach
based on personal experiences sales people don’t make good tech founders and usually tend to be mercenaries chasing a win in any form
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derek
@derek
Agreed with @dwr.eth for tech companies that are code/product heavy. For other types of companies (CPG, for instance) being a seller *is* being an IC.
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Zeen Train
@zeentrain
Most founders have to become great sales people Just make sure you’re filling other time with Operations + raising + testing the product and you’ll be golden
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Charli Cohen
@charlicohen
IMO difficult to communicate the vision to team / understand future-proofing and how to adapt without having a deep product understanding - this can be the what/why/how without needing to have the technical expertise to actually build it
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