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No. I think humans are all unique. Just like a pro basketball coach, you are looking for the right talent for your particular team and your particular context.

I have had extremely smart, talented, thorough engineers who are slower than whale shit in an ice flow. For a startup, those engineers are a death sentence. It doesn't matter how good they are, if they aren't fast, they hold everyone back.

Are you building the roman empire, or are you building a small group of bandits that move swiftly through the night? Each case has it's corresponding strategy.



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