[asanwal]

Unfortunately, didn’t have the talent internally to do that.

Running the biz required a set of generalist biz skills and the company was mostly specialists.

[statictype]

Wasn’t your dad also a specialist in that sense (the technical founder as you put it)?

Great writing, btw.

[asanwal]

Thanks. Dad was a specialist on the engineering/science side. He learned and grinded enough over time to become quite dangerous on the business stuff.

I guess he'd be what some folks would call T-shaped. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-shaped_skills