Venture Capitalist, Rubén Dominguez Ibar: ‘The ideal startup founder has two key roles – the inventor, and the entrepreneur. The ideal? Two founders who know both roles, but at least one should be world-class in each’

Rubén Dominguez Ibar is a Venture Capital investor at Mundi Ventures, which invests in Series A-C rounds (tickets from 3M -10M). Rubén, who has an engineering background and is passionate about technology and innovation, shares what he thinks are the two key roles that the ideal startup founding team must have:

Ben Horowitz [co-founder, Opsware] believes the best founding teams have two people:

1. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗼𝗿: Their job is to build a product that’s 10x better than anything else.
2. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿: Their role is to take the product to market and capture it.

When Ben co-founded Opsware with Marc Andreessen, Ben was the entrepreneur and Marc was the inventor. But both understood each other’s world—technology and business.

The ideal?

𝗧𝘄𝗼 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗯𝗼𝘁𝗵 𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗲𝘀, but at least one should be world-class in each.