Thursday, May 31, 2012

Engineer vs. Entreprenuer

What is the difference between an Engineer and an Entrepreneur? I can't speak about other engineering fields, however, in software engineering the difference is worth pondering over.

A smart engineer builds a great product to solve a technical problem, gifts the product away to the open-source community for the greater good, gets recognition in the technical community for the effort, and then goes back to being a salaried employee at a company.

A smart entrepreneur on the other hand, hires smart engineers to build a product to solve a consumer problem by using the technological advancements made by the open-source community, gets recognition among the masses, either sells the company or takes it public, becoming a millionaire or possibly a billionaire in the process.

Case in point - Doug Cutting developed Hadoop, a great distributed computing framework, gifted it to the open-source community, gained respect in the technical community, and went back to being a salaried employee. Whereas, Mark Zuckerberg built facebook by using Hadoop to gain massive scalability and reliability, gained world-wide recognition by building the largest social network, and became a billionaire after facebook went public.

Moral of the story: Become an Engineer, but think like an Entrepreneur!

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