The problem, I think, is that extroverts collaborate more easily and this makes particular problems easier and/or faster to solve.
> Marketing is more important than technology.
I assume you meant this as a jab (if not I apologise), however with proliferation of affordable and reproductible technology this is very true. Marketing is not only advertising, it is also knowing what problems your technology should solve and how to do it differently than myriads of your competitors.
"The problem, I think, is that extroverts collaborate more easily and this makes particular problems easier and/or faster to solve."
In my company there are a lot of extroverts that only do work in group meetings. They are insecure working alone. So six people have to go over a document for two hours which the person that has called the meeting could have written alone and sent to others by email for review. There is no real collaboration going on in those meetings.
It's about being extrovert. I would never voluntarily go into a meeting with tons of people where it's all talk and nothing gets decided. I find it exhausting but other people find those meetings invigorating.
HN is full of solutions that answer no real world problems (X written in Go; new framework to do Y; ...) Useless engineering and sleazy marketing go hand in hand.
Marketing gets bad rep all of the time, but I think that is because often marketing is done (like you said) after one has something to sell. For me the order should be inverted:
1. Find a real world problem and identify potential customers (marketing)
2. Create an original solution that actually helps solve it (engineering)
3. Loops from marketing to engineering to improve the product
If you are pondering what should you that could actually sell you are doing marketing.
> Marketing is more important than technology.
I assume you meant this as a jab (if not I apologise), however with proliferation of affordable and reproductible technology this is very true. Marketing is not only advertising, it is also knowing what problems your technology should solve and how to do it differently than myriads of your competitors.