I’m an entrepreneur and I always find myself with ideas that I think are powerful products. I deep dive into every aspect before I start. Since I’m not a technical founder but more of a visionary founder I find myself having to find the better half else where. Most of the time it’s difficult. Do you guys think I should learn programming so I can build my dreams faster? A lot of the time they are just very simple web apps.
Any guidance would help.
No. You should not add coding/programming to your responsibilities if you can delegate that responsibility to other people or teams.
In terms of picking the CTOs, I always suffered when working with CTOs and project managers that are not technical. So business skills of a CTO is important but having good technical understand and up ti date perspective is equally important.
Don’t get me wrong, I am not expecting CTOs to review code as a responsibility but they should their past experience should allow them to dive deep while their management skills keep them afloat at a higher altitude to observe the progress. Only then they can see the big picture and also manage the expectations of the other C-levels.
A CTO that doesn’t understand the technical challenges is not capable to do such things.