However, if you do learn to program, you—not your technical cofounder, not your first engineering hire, but you—will have a good sense of the answer. You may not be able to do it yourself, but you will have a far better sense of how long it would take for a professional. You will know what software costs. And in the startup business, the people who know what software costs tend to be the biggest winners.
Bill Gates. Steve Jobs. Larry Page. Jeff Bezos. Mark Zuckerberg. By the time they were billionaires, they were each likely as useful committing code as they were mopping the floor. But when any of them were presented with a feature, they knew about how much development time it should take. And the knowledge of that cost coupled with their singular intuition for their customers' needs and vision for the market propelled them to the decisions that would build world-changing companies.Read more in FastCompany.
Thanks, +Bikram Virk
