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Founders succeed in hard tech by recruiting top engineers and handling commercial operations.
Founders succeed in hard tech by recruiting top engineers and handling commercial operations.
Success in hard tech is fundamentally about assembling the right technical team. The founder's role is to recruit the world's best engineers for the core problem and then handle the commercial and operational aspects around their expertise.
- Speaker
- Philip Johnston
- Topic
- Team Building
- Source timestamp
- 16:17
- Context timestamp
- 15:47
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