I would suggest having this baseline coding / design / tech knowledge for a few reasons:
#3 - I have invested in closet to a dozen startups as an angel investor and a huge reason startups fail is because the technical founder leaves and the non-technical founder can’t easily find a new technical lead. If you have some baseline coding knowledge, you will be better equipped to find a replacement or to step in and fill the gaps as needed until you can find the right person.
#1 - Many technical leaders or programmers won’t respect you or want to follow your lead in the business if you have literally zero technical knowledge. They may do so reluctantly, but you won’t have the same level of authority as if you really know what you’re talking about.
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Personally, even if you are not the technical co-founder, I would still suggest spending some time (e.g. 4–6 months) building up your technical and design expertise / know-how. In the past, my answer would have been different, but with tools like Figma and Canva, one can conceptualize and design product wireframes way faster than ever. These tools enable you to create a compelling product vision and then bring in an engineer to execute. With new AI coding tools like Github Copilot, Chat-GPT, and Cursor AI, it is much, much easier to code than ever before (you can state what you want in plain English and it will spit back code for you to implement). It’s not totally plug and play (you often need to iterate, experiment, and adjust your prompting), but with a few months of coding practice, you will be able to do a lot.
-James
#2 - It’s hard to assess and hold technical co-founders accountable if you really have no tech skills / knowledge. For example, I had a non-technical friend who assumed that because his technical co-founder was a strong front-end engineer, he would be able to learn how to build AI models. This was wildly off-base and caused a lot of friction in their relationship.
Hello,hope y'all doin good, i came to Quora to share my strange story , a very weird one , a story when luck smiled at me ,maybe u will enjoy it , let's begin,have fun...
A year ago ,I was a real porn addicted(btw I was 18) ,but never had sex before, I don't have a gf I didn't try to find one even ,always thinking to go to find a sex worker but then I just don't , everyday watching different bodies getting fucked and everyday enjoying.
One day, I was watching porn, a big ass lady with big boobs ,just after seeing her the image of my female cousin poped in my mind, (let's introduce her : she's 35 years old , very big ass , nice boobs ,not very big but nice,always wearing tight clothes , she's divorced ) and I thought of me fucking her ,I never had sexual desires for her but now I do days went by and when I met her I was so horny ,I couldn't stay with the family cz my penis was clearly erected , I realized this is my first time I get horny for one of my family ,it not illegal in my country.well to make a long story short( if u want details just text me I will tell u 😊),I decided to give her signs that I want to fuck her,finally I decided to have sex and with my cousin , I thought it is the best beggining for me, i started touching her when I came across her in a narrow place , make her feel my hard cock when we hug , I thought it will hard and I will be ashamed but no , I felt nothing and she said nothing , probably she thought it was by mistake,anyways, I decided then to talk with her about sex, waited for her to be alone in a room and talk with her, I confessed everything about me watching porn and addicted..etc,she said it's normal and u are growing up and u must have sex,well at that time I was like whaaat????? Well I didn't control myself and asked her for sex ( horny like I Ve never been before) she said that she will think Abt it ,2 weeka went by then she called me ,telling that she reserved a room in a hotel and we meet tonight ,we met,and bruuhh, sex is great , I mean, I had to find a pirstitue ,what I was waiting for to have such a feeling ????, I will never forget that night, I started kissing her she was kissing hard ,she misses sex so bad , she sucked my dick and swallowed my semen ,I felt I'm in a dream , then when fucked ,her ass was very big and the anus was open ,didn't struggle to get my hard cock inside it , she was obviously missing sex , she was shouting ,fuck me yh fuck me , I go fast after every word until I cum , we did that 3 times , then we went to her pussy , using condoms I fucked her so hard the moans were higher , everything was perfect ,in the end I asked her to lick her body , licked pussy ,ass, boobs,then she sucked my cock until we sleeped ,all I know that she was dirty ,well before even having sex with her I knew she is an open minded woman , and a woman that looks that she donesnt know anything , but she knows everything, but never expected having sex with her ,well she was horny and that helped...but no one of us regretted that sex ever..
We still have sex from time to time ,and I started having sex with sex workers , joining threesomes..etc
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If you have the time and money, a coding bootcamp can really level up your skills super, super fast (I did Hack Reactor in 2017 for about $25k and became a competent programmer in 3 months of very intense effort). If you want a more affordable option, there are plenty of Coursera / Udemy / YouTube courses and tutorials to help you gain solid coding skills. If you want something a bit higher-level, there are companies like Skip Level that help non-technical people learn how to think from a technical perspective.
