Startup CEOs: you are overestimating your tech talent
OTOH, most startups don't really need a great tech team.<p>Exactly what highly technical problem is Evernote, Airbnb, Snapchat, or Twitter, or Facebook solving?<p>I mean really deep technical problem like the news feed absolutely will not work with out some sort of huge breakthrough in AI, not that deep learning is 5% better than an SVM. Look at how well something simple like the points*timedecay system than HN uses for ranking works.<p>Fuck, even Google was a 20 year old algorithm.<p>We're building CRUD apps on what 20 years ago were $75 million dollar computers, not putting men on the moon with pocket calculators.