Two creators are not always better than one

Re:Two creators are not always better than one by ata_aman on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @05:05PM (#18925928)

The only flow in the logic for me in the multi-founder scenario is that if the other person is non-technical, they are automatically considered sales etc... by default. So you can get anyone who is not technical and meet the model; regardless of their skills. It's harder to prove someone is not good at sales vs a technical person (more relevant in younger founders).

The only argument I can think of against what I just said is that the other person is not heads down building so they have more time to acquire those skills.

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Re:Two creators are not always better than one by nissimk on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @07:37PM (#18927229)

I would think that sales would be easier to measure than tech because successful salespeople have a track record with dollar amounts sold.

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Re:Two creators are not always better than one by xyzzy123 on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @09:40PM (#18927829)

I’ve seen people do really well at sales within one organisation completely fail in another.

Dollar amounts between salespeople are really only comparable within a given company and maybe not even then taking into account different territories, product lines and times.

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Re:Two creators are not always better than one by ata_aman on Thursday January 17, 2019 @01:27PM (#18933155)

Agreed. Sales in big companies is also extremely different than sales in startups. Hard to measure how much of the sales is happening because of big company X being your employer (carrying the weight of the process).

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