Technology and Business
14 min
Why a "jack of all trades" beats specialists in startups
A techie builds the perfect architecture for a product that nobody needs. A marketer drives traffic to a website with terrible UX. Both are stuck because they think like specialists, not like founders. Sam Altman, after hundreds of startups at YC, formulated a rule: the best founders are generalists from start to finish. Let's analyze how this works in practice.