On: Experienced Hires Will Save You From Yourself

[GuiA]

> If I give Linus Torvalds a job to make me Facebook for cats, he will deliver FB for cats

Actually, he likely will deliver a poor product, as his field of specialty has nothing to do with developing web apps.

Regarding your second paragraph, it sounds like you've never worked with good founders.

[orangethirty → GuiA]

May you define what a good founder is?