Technology is as important as business. It is wrong to favor either side

　　 Because I'm a technologist , The level is good enough , So it is more difficult to start a business . So it becomes blind , I think they are very good at business . In fact, the two are equally important . For example, I now scoff at their business ability ：

• No technology , What do you do in business ？
• You think technology is easy , You come to ？
• Good skills ？ Business is easy to recruit .
• Networking is important ？ Your contacts fell from the sky ？ You don't have anyone else ？
• If you have money, you can use technology ？ Money can also attract business .

　　 In a company , Technology is as important as business , No one can live without another . If someone wants to emphasize the importance of business , Or a low-level mistake like me , Or they have ulterior motives .

　　 therefore , In the company , Technology should have the same power . Some things just need to be in your own hands . Make a noise when you should , Break up if you want , Who cares ？

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Say a counterexample , We kicked the management out as technical partners .

In most cases , Actually “ Technical partner ” They are workers with worthless shares and wages below the market price , When you do things, you are an employee , When you are back in the pot, you are the shareholder . Unfortunately, I didn't understand these at that time .

2017 The first venture failed in , Several members of our team were forced to sell themselves to a Hong Kong boss in a traditional industry , Set up an outsourcing company , Our technology shares account for 20% Responsible for the development of , The boss is responsible for soliciting customers .

The boss is ostensibly polite to us , You don't trust us , In addition, we found two shareholders with technical background to join us , To say "guidance" is actually "supervision" . However, the level of these two people is very poor , I took over one of their projects , It's on the front and back php Written , No framework , There's a mountain of copy and paste code everywhere . The most exaggerated thing is that all business logic uses MySQL Stored procedures and views of the , Its name in the United States and Japan is to ensure data security , In fact, it is simply stupid X. When defining the technical architecture, I proposed that we should at least separate the front end from the back end , As a result, it was unanimously opposed by two technical shareholders , This kind of thing still feels very magical when I think back today .

In addition to being dictated technically , We have no say in other aspects . At that time, the boss wanted to build a cross-border e-commerce platform , A large group of partners who knew nothing about the Internet and wanted to test the water were called to participate , In total disregard of our opposition . Can you imagine what kind of disaster this is , When there is no one customer, we should implement all kinds of wonderful ideas of the bosses , I'll do it later pc The mobile terminal will work as a small program , For one thing, it will be the Hong Kong and Macao market, for another, it will be the mainland market, and for another, it will be the overseas market , There are fiveorsix payment methods alone , Only me and another front-end colleague were responsible for the development .

It was not because of this that we fell out in the end . At that time, we thought that it was not the way to take on bad jobs all the time , It happened that two colleagues in the team did it privately app mvp The version has a good response , We just want to find the boss to invest some resources to expand . When the boss heard that the profit model we envisaged was advertising + When I was a member, I laughed with disdain , It means that we are extremely negative about , But I want to invest in the partnership 5 ten thousand , Yes, you are right 5 ten thousand , Or Hong Kong dollars . The original is “ Just as 5 Ten thousand yuan to buy a size , Lose it all ”. This scorn completely enraged us , Then we found another investment , I asked my former boss to run away .

The boss was shocked when he knew we were going to run away , At first, I tried my best to keep （ After all, we are cheap and easy to use ）, After knowing that we have made up our minds, we start to settle accounts with us , Said that the company has lost money since its establishment 100 More than ten thousand , As a shareholder, we also have responsibilities . This is funny , We have no decision-making power at all , When we lose money, we remember that we are shareholders . Finally, we took a step back to avoid trouble , We will continue to work on the open items , After receiving the project payment, it will be opened at 73% （ He is seven and we are three ）, The boss can only agree , About a year later, the two sides were completely broken .

Although we kicked the management out , But it can only be said to be a disastrous victory , After all, two years' time was wasted . Fortunately, the new company we set up after we left has developed well , That year “ Buy money of size ” Now it's just us 2 Days of income , I guess the boss's guts are green with regret .

Some critics say that we are not kicking the management out , It's about us starting over . That's not a mistake , But all the core assets 、 contacts 、 The employees are here , After we left, we only left a company with no one, no money and no projects to the former boss . There are different opinions about who is kicking .

Here also give the vast potential “ Technical partner ” Let's wake up ：

1、 Don't easily cooperate with the management with non-technical background , Even relatives and friends try not to . Subjectively, the other party may not have any malice , But it is difficult for people who do not know technology to respect and understand technical people . More than one person has told me something “ It is hard to develop in the early stage , After the product is finalized, it mainly depends on the market and operation , Development is easy ”. In fact, I can tell you clearly , The good thing of waiting for the money will never turn to the technical people , As the user volume increases , The investment in development is endless , Good things don't necessarily have a share of development , All bad things must have a share .

2、 If you really decide to be “ Technical partner ”, Be sure to keep a firm grip on all databases 、 Cloud server 、 The highest authority of the payment interface , Everyone else can only use limited access accounts . It's easy to do , In the early days of start-ups, the most authorized accounts must have been given to the technical director . If other shareholders question it, they say it is for the sake of data security （ In fact, it is ）. besides , Technicians have no card to compete with the management , It's impossible to have a good time in a lawsuit .

3、 See a lot of answers , Technical partners should be more involved in the management of the company , Otherwise, it is easy to be marginalized . That's a good thing , But people's energy is limited after all , If you really don't want to worry too much about the management of the company , Running your own technical team is also a good choice , This is what you must learn whether you are starting a business or working as a technical executive . Highly praised @Tom Zhu What surprised me about my experience is , Many core developments in the technical team have been poached , When we left that year, all the developers went with us , Leave an empty office . Of course, our example is special , I understand that most people with technical background are really not good at dealing with interpersonal relationships , I can only say that it depends on my own nature .

4、 Last but not least ： Technologist , You have to be confident ！ Many respondents said that technical partners can easily be replaced , The company has become bigger and higher paid CTO That's it . However, who is irreplaceable after the company is established ？ High salary, new CEO no way ？ High salary, new CFO no way ？ The highest replacement cost is precisely technology . Business is gone, but make less money , The whole project returns to zero in one second . Therefore, when negotiating terms with the management , Don't put yourself down , You can be neither humble nor overbearing without paying money . Put your time, energy and technology into it , It is reasonable to get the due return . If you look down on yourself , Others will use your weakness to bully you , People will insult themselves, but later generations will insult them , Remember ！

Some people in the comment area doubt that deleting databases and running away are not afraid of the public prosecution ？ I want to say don't be so rigid , Most of the time, you just need to let the other party know that you have the ability to make the project zero in one second , The launch button of the nuclear bomb is firmly in his hand , Whether to use it or not is another matter . What the management is most afraid of is that you take the legal approach , I signed the contract myself , How do you play with others ？ The only capital that technologists can counter the capital is technology . Many leaders in the comment area provided a lot of good ideas , Welcome to add :p