How Non-Technical Founders Can Change the World

Non-technical founders are stigmatized everywhere.

From Silicon Valley to London

If you aren’t technical you aren’t getting in.

This is true at Venture capital firms and incubators. It’s made technology an exclusive club which is incredibly hard to infiltrate.

Do we really want the potential for innovation to be contingent on whether the founding idea was conceived by a techy or not?

We are constantly hit with the stick that ideas are dime a dozen, there is no value in an idea unless you have the means to implement it, implementation is everything.

There are no new ideas

Everything old is new again, brought into the new world by a reinterpretation of existing technologies. In the same way, Uber is the modern equivalent of Taxi’s the iPod was the next iteration of the CD.

The true voyage of discovery is not in seeing new landscapes but in having new eyes.

But having new eyes is no longer enough; if you don’t have the skills to implement the ideas you imagine…