I'd say yes, but it's harder. It's actually what I plan to do very soon.

He's not exactly an introvert, but one good example is from the founder of my client. He wanted to stay doing the technical work he enjoyed, so he recruited a CEO above him (although he actually still shares a lot of that role and now they nominally share the role), and also hired others the lead the development teams, leaving him to focus on the one specific area of tech that he really enjoys. I'd say his job is about 80% tech and about 40% CEO (and total 120% load because he never seems to sleep!)

I guess the point is to try to fight the urge to do everything yourself. If you're not an extrovert, you'll need to hire a good sales and marketing team to take that side of the business, or you'll end up hating it and/or having no customers no matter how good your product is.

In some industries, older entrepreneurs have a big advantage over younger entrepreneurs, so it kind of depends on what you've been doing and what you're good at.

How is this different from Citus?

There are 100+ popular extensions around Postgres. They have dependencies on the internal data structures of Postgres. If someone spends the time to rewrite Postgres on Rust and it doesn't support these extensions off the bat, then its DOA.

Why does it matter it's from the 80s? You're suggesting people back then were incapable of making good decisions, and people now will make better ones?

I use VSCode, Claude Opus 4.7, github work trees to work on multiple projects. At most I work on 3 projects a day. More than that and I start hallucinating myself.

It's too late to embrace, extend and extinguish and Microsoft has moved past that era. I think this is an attempt to gate keep the inclusion of opensource libraries in the distribution that have contributions from unverified users and potential state actors.

Seems like an interesting idea to add durability and resumability to lengthy cron jobs.