Comment by al_borland

It could be that the engineer is the one with the idea and the less technical person is needed to sell it. I know I hate sales, I’m betting the same is true for most engineers. Without someone to get out there and sell, it’s just a hobby.

With Apple, Jobs was the salesman. Without him, Woz would have been an engineer at HP and the modern computing landscape would look very different.

In terms of bringing someone’s else’s vision to life. If the other founder is a good salesman, the engineer should end up sharing the same vision and seek to evolve it and add their own signature on it as well.