If I follow, you're just saying (if a little enthusiastically) that DB/server administrator skills for hackers matter in a startup.
You'd be right - at each startup I've ever been involved in I've done everything from written code, configured the server, fixed the server at 3am, answered the phones, licked stamps for invoices (ok, not in modern times) and fetched coffee.
Startups generally don't have enough scale to hire one trick ponys.
In a younger founder/early employee, I'm not looking so much at programming ability as entrepreneurial spirit and a willingness to get stuff done. Even the coffee run.
If I follow, you're just saying (if a little enthusiastically) that DB/server administrator skills for hackers matter in a startup.
You'd be right - at each startup I've ever been involved in I've done everything from written code, configured the server, fixed the server at 3am, answered the phones, licked stamps for invoices (ok, not in modern times) and fetched coffee.
Startups generally don't have enough scale to hire one trick ponys.
In a younger founder/early employee, I'm not looking so much at programming ability as entrepreneurial spirit and a willingness to get stuff done. Even the coffee run.