>It’s not exactly rocket science to employ smart people.

This is a ridiculous statement if you've ever run a company. "Just hire smart people and your company will be successful!"

Great, glad you cracked the code.

You can also employ a hiring manager who will hire smart people for you? He is definitely not operating on startup money, he can do that as well.

If only all those companies who got bankrupt knew this wise advice!

HN is trully a trove of business wisdom!

You absolutely cannot outsource talent acquisition. I’d go so far as to say it’s the single most important job of the entrepreneur— as Khosla has said “The team you build IS the company you build”

"It’s not exactly rocket science to employ smart people."

To employ, no, but to get a stream of important innovations out of them, that might actually be harder than rocket science.

The vast majority of smart people around the world are stuck in mediocre jobs. Hotspots of technical productivity like Bell Labs or SpaceX or NASA of the 1960s are pretty rare and rarely last for more than approximately a generation.

How to get smart people to be actually scientifically productive is a major question of history.

An example: 100 years ago, several very important innovators like von Neumann were Hungarians; nowadays, Hungary is a scientific backwater. (With the exception of Katalin Karikó, the mRNA lady.)

<< It’s not exactly rocket science to employ smart people.

Oh, but it is based on how hard it is for corporate America to even accept such a notion without going for 'egghead' in their internal vocabulary.

I think I disagree.