Hi guys,

I was just wondering if you were someone who had little to no grounding in tech as a founder of a tech (mobile app) company. Would you direct your efforts into CS/learning how to program or would you develop your business acumen / softer skills, potentially considering an MBA in marketing? I have no intention of writing the program but hope to find a tech confounder who would or at least be able to liaise with a dev team.

TIA

  • gwicksted@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I’m a seasoned developer with a boss (CEO) who’s not one. Definitely stay out of software. It’s an advantage when problem solving because you’re not constrained by the tech and it’s great when you’re on a conference call to say you’ll talk it over with the developers and get back to them. Focus on sales, marketing, making a great work environment. One of the reasons I’ve been there 20 years is: it’s a flat organizational structure and nobody is blamed when there’s a problem. We just work to solve it. We crush big challenges and are appreciated for our hard work. Always have great dev PCs, all the books we want, and the best tools. Keep things light, isolate as much of the outer hostilities from your team as possible, trust your team, and people will enjoy working their ***es off for you.