I think not.
It’s counterintuitive to ignore your strengths as a founder (ie: sales, marketing, etc)
The founders I speak with who want to learn to code assume it will help them understand their developers more. This is slightly true, but it’s an opportunity cost against time spent selling/promoting the product.
Products fail more due to poor PMF, not because founders can’t code.
Hiring developers who can communicate is a bigger force multiplier. (a hard requirement for me)
A technical project manager is even more ideal for providing the buffer between the founder and developers.
Curious how non-technical people on the fence of learning to code feel about this topic.
(if it’s a passion you seek, that is a different argument. code away)
My POV: Coding is an incredibly important life skill, gives you so much power of creation and control over what you want to create, makes everything (including various business challenges) easier if you know how to write some basic JavaScript or PHP connection between services, pulling sales data from a SQL table, merging sales data with visitor data in two different SQL tables, etc.
So powerful. I learned how to do it on YouTube when I was really young, like 8. Best life skill I have ever acquired.