Comments on: Brown Bag Lunch: The Myth of Superman http://www.mkbergman.com/835/brown-bag-lunch-the-myth-of-superman/ Mike Bergman on the semantic Web and structured Web Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:15:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Steve Ardire http://www.mkbergman.com/835/brown-bag-lunch-the-myth-of-superman/comment-page-1/#comment-52333 Steve Ardire Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:12:10 +0000 http://www.mkbergman.com/?p=835#comment-52333 Mike this is excellent subject matter with terrific narrative that I clearly resonate with after working with about 15 software startups in past 15 years;) I also have read a plethora of posts from top VCs and luminaries like http://www.paulgraham.com/bio.html and your post is top flight! Hiring the most clever people you can find will make life a lot easier for you, but raw intelligence should not be your only criteria. You should hire people who challenge you, who keep an open mind, who understand their faults and who know how to learn from people who don’t share their DNA. Hire people who make you better and who make the team better. Hire people because your gut and your brain got to talking and decided that this person understands your vision and maybe, just maybe, could take your product to the next level. (attribution to http://howtosplitanatom.com/news/dont-hire-the-smartest-guy/ ) Mike this is excellent subject matter with terrific narrative that I clearly resonate with after working with about 15 software startups in past 15 years;)

I also have read a plethora of posts from top VCs and luminaries like http://www.paulgraham.com/bio.html and your post is top flight!

Hiring the most clever people you can find will make life a lot easier for you, but raw intelligence should not be your only criteria. You should hire people who challenge you, who keep an open mind, who understand their faults and who know how to learn from people who don’t share their DNA. Hire people who make you better and who make the team better. Hire people because your gut and your brain got to talking and decided that this person understands your vision and maybe, just maybe, could take your product to the next level.

(attribution to http://howtosplitanatom.com/news/dont-hire-the-smartest-guy/ )

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