> Starting a company is more about people and relationships than almost any other task in life, and it's much easier when it's something you enjoy and can do naturally
Introverts care A LOT about people and relationships. They are choosy about who they spend time with. Keeping the right people around you, at the start of a company, seems like a good strategy to me.
That might be true of the founding team, but it's still not really true.
In order to get to know the right people in the first place, you have to go through a lot of people. Someone who knows 10,000 people will have a much better pool to choose from than someone who knows 1,000.
My point was just that starting a company is a game of creating relationships. If you dislike meeting people, making small talk, following up, etc. (or if it makes you really tired), you're going to do less of that.
None of this is a jab at introverts. As I said, Woz is an introvert and an incredibly important inventor in the history of computing. He's just not a great entrepreneur, which is fine! Most people aren't, and it's a dubious honor to begin with.
Introverts care A LOT about people and relationships. They are choosy about who they spend time with. Keeping the right people around you, at the start of a company, seems like a good strategy to me.