"<i>If I had found the right technical co-founder with the right chops at the right price</i> and for the right piece of equity, <i>I’d be telling a different story now.</i>"<p>"<i>Of course, if I hired an agency....<p>Then there was the issue of ownership. By outsourcing development, I’d keep 100% of the company. This was good.</i>"<p>While other things, including one of his comments, suggests he just plain couldn't find anyone, I have to wonder if the above hints at one of the reasons why.<p>On the other hand, he seem clueful, he chose an agency that could get the job done, and worked closely with them every day (can't believe all the people who try to do this in a "fire and forget" approach). Is sensitive to e.g. the problem that none of the developers he's hired now have the sense of ownership of the code they'd have if they'd been there from the start. Etc.<p>A bottom line is that from what I've read in this blog post and his replies to comments, he sounds like a non-technical "product manager" I could very possibly work for, a rare thing in my experience.