You Should be Working on Hardware

The author argues that people should work on hardware rather than software, because hardware markets are far less mature and few people are building in them. Citing Elon Musk's companies, the piece says success in hard hardware comes from founders who take on technical as well as business leadership, and who spend years learning the field. SpaceX is said to have landed more rockets in the last 12 months than the rest of the world has launched, and Tesla is said to be on track to sell nearly 2 million electric cars this year.