An Important Tech Job That Doesn't Exist
I really enjoyed this piece. It lays out a line of reasoning I would certainly like to be true, but is it?<p>My start-up vocabulary is failing me here so I'm going to have to use an analogy.<p>---<p>In boxing, the most profitable fighter is not necessarily the best fighter.<p>A promoter will use an expert eye for the sound fundamentals of a great fighter at least as much to avoid bad match-ups for <i>his</i> prospects as he will to find those prospects in the first place.<p>Great fighters are not necessarily marketable fighters and their value falls through the through floor once they take an L.<p>What the promoter really wants is the right face, a guy with a great story and charisma, someone the people will pay to watch beat up cab drivers - he needs him to be good, but only good enough.<p>The promoter has all the resources to arrange the rest.<p>---<p>So, is the issue that the VCs are overlooking / ignorant to these technical factors of great companies or is it simply that great companies are too much effort when they can get rich(er) on status quo games of cash and connections?