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0 pointsAlchemistCamp5y ago0 comments

> I suspect it was after they hired people that weren't engineers to help

For years, they required that all their hires could program, even those in completely unrelated roles.

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I suppose this might explain why all google products have terrible UX, to this day. But it's not really an argument against non-technical co-founders. Steve Jobs was non-technical, I think it's safe to assume Woz's Apple would have been less successful.

haakonhr5y ago

But he definitely had a technical background (working at Atari) and he knew his way around a circuit (compared to people one could classify as non-technical)

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0 pointsAlchemistCamp5y ago0 comments

> I suspect it was after they hired people that weren't engineers to help

For years, they required that all their hires could program, even those in completely unrelated roles.

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Grustaf5y ago

haakonhr5y ago

But he definitely had a technical background (working at Atari) and he knew his way around a circuit (compared to people one could classify as non-technical)

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