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In some sense this is the biggest strength of nontechnical cofounders: defaulting to finding a way to test their hypotheses without writing code.


I wish I shared that sentiment. I am a non technical wannabe. I think I have done a lot of important work so far in terms of figuring out what works, but I feel like it will never get anywhere. Geez. And I envy the coders, who seem to get so much more done.

The grass is always greener...


Haha. Coders can get a lot of things done, but are they the right things? Sometimes it can be so fun to build that you don't actually ship.


I am still not shipping. I also make a lot less money than coders.

Six of one, half dozen of the other...


All I can tell you is that my co-founders weren't technical but the relationships and market research they'd done made it far easier to build the right product when I (as technical co-founder) came on board.




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