[truthsayer123]

Because you also need courage.

A lot of technically smart people over analyze everything and don't take any decisions that are non deterministic.

You can also say many technically smart people are also heavily short sighted and misses the big picture.

That's why you need the Jobs. Steve Wozniak by himself would have not started any kind of company and not remotely a company like Apple.

So the ones who are courageous, takes the risk and have a big picture vision gets the money.

Also the reason why many technically smart people never gets laid.

[ranndino]

Lots of good replies but I liked this one the best. 100% right on and what a ton of technically smart people don't understand.

Tons of technically very smart people are a great example of that. Are they technically smart? Yes. Do they overanalyze the shit out of everything and almost always come up with reasons why it won't work? Yup.

Every smartup CEO I've worked with has been delisionally optimistic and very charismatic. Their main skill is to be a true believer (at least externally) and brainwash everyone around them into their vision (investors and current as well as perspective employees).

[dsattt]

It's not courage, it's just plain sales and being likable. These days being likable gets you anything you want.