Why Startups Should Only Hire Good StarCraft Players

Re:Why Startups Should Only Hire Good StarCraft Players by dgallagher on Friday September 03, 2010 @10:33PM (#1661833)

- Good StarCraft Players Play StarCraft All The Time, And Don't Invent And Build Real Things.

- Good StarCraft Players Know How To Configure Their Video Card Settings, Making Them Savvy Enough To Deploy And Manage Business Servers.

- Good StarCraft Players Master A Small Predictable Walled Garden, Not The Vast Outside Ever-Changing World Of Business.

Seriously. Using that logic, you can make the argument that a porn star who has a high PPM (penetrations per minute) should be hired by startups. ;)

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Re:Why Startups Should Only Hire Good StarCraft Players by alnayyir on Friday September 03, 2010 @11:11PM (#1661889)

I think the greater point here is that you should hire people who have a real passion and knack for something in their life that isn't necessarily what you're hiring them for.

Given the choice between two mostly equal candidates, I'd choose the one that could wax philosophic about StarCraft 2 or their boat building project.

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