The 10X Hustler

@OP: your site is utterly UNREADABLE for me! The Inconsolata font looks ugly-to-unreadable on Windows browsers at the font-size you use! (Maybe the Mac OS antialiasing does some wonders or maybe you have Retina display, but PLEASE, either substantially increase the font size or change the font: on Windows machines, Consolas is readable at this font-size, so you can just do `font-family: Consolas, Inconsolata, Monaco, monospace`).

For me, Hustler has always had a negative meaning, one I would hesitate to self label, or be proud if someone else gave me the label. I'm sure it was that way for the 'hacker' label for those on the outside looking in before hacker no longer had a negative association.<p>I'll do my best to keep an open mind on Hustler.

Engineering is transparent … It is fairly easy to evaluate how good someone is. Are they a good coder? An ubercoder? Things are different with sales. Sales isn’t very transparent at all. We are tempted to lump all salespeople in with vacuum cleaner salesmen, but really there is a whole set of gradations. There are amateurs, mediocrities, experts, masters, and even grandmasters. Peter Thiel

I like the way you use that post as a way to recruit the person you just described. But I agree with PaulHoule that the 10x isn't meant just for developers.

This is a complex subject, and you nailed the 'level of abstraction' nicely in your piece. That's not an easy thing to do.<p>On a side note, the USV piece you referenced (from 2006 - on bus dev via APIs) was interesting in the context of where Twitter is now.

In my experience, somehow everybody in the money chain of posession manages to grab some of it. Never mind the logic; people can't help but wet their beaks. Socially we rationalize it. It doesn't really make any more sense for a sales person to have a commission, than the guy that boxes up the product and mails it.

I think this has always been recognized. This is why salespeople get commissions.