Non Technical Founders

Saturday — 8th Feb 2025

I once heard there are circles where the word “non-technical” is used as a slur and now I kind of understand it. Being around people who do not really have any real tangible skills, but yet again drive and bring the only real and tangible income is interesting. Those are the “non-technical” founders we speak about. An interesting bunch.

Its so rare to ever find a truly good one, one that knows what they’re doing in terms of the “non-technical”, and rarely ever one that has some idea of the technicality. Most of them are just boys with an idea. A fancy title to cover the fact that they’re just boys with a software idea, and no skill or agency to pull that off.

At the same time, I do feel bad for every “good” non-technical founder that does exist. They could be absolutely amazing at selling, getting money in, getting the product in the right hands, but its sad how they have to be so reliant on the technical when they are actually good at what they do. It feels like they make themselves artificially dependant and/or reliant on their technical founders and/or team when they, in this day and age, are not capable of making basic MVPs themselves. Its a sad ode to what they could have been, if they could. They would honestly be unstoppable, and they wouldn’t have to stoop like the way they have to right now just to get some crumbs of a working MVP. Its like that meme, where theres an ant carrying its bag and its begging, “plzz some mvp progress guis?”, thats how I feel like I see those technical founders when they ask for updates on the “product”. Its a sad sight. Grow agency. Its 2025. Don’t do this to yourself. Take my advice, you can do better.