[fasteddie31003]

I am a programmer and at my last company there was a technical founder and a nontechnical founder. The nontechnical founder was just taking up space. He once looked over my shoulder at my code and said "Oh I get it, it's not that hard" I then pointed out to him that the code was the stuff in-between the lines that started with "//". He actually thought the comments did all the work. He could not make any management decision because of his lack of technical experience. He ended up just doing payroll and accounting work, while the technical founder worked 90+ hour weeks. He made some pretty drastic strategy mistakes, such as thinking the iPhone was a fad (it was a mobile company). I left because I did not have faith in his management.

[tatsuke95]

I worked at a development shop where we hired a programmer who couldn't get a standard browser toolbar implemented.

Therefore, coders are useless. See how fun anecdotes are?

>"I left because I did not have faith in his management"

Weird, because all we had to do was replace the guy with someone more capable, and off we went.

Sounds like your technical founder didn't know how to manage human resources. And if he did, you wouldn't have left, and the business would have been better off, right? That's why knowing the intricacies of running a business is important.