Care to give us some context? Also, take the doomsayers in this thread with a grain of salt. Some developers have bad experiences in their career and start thi

Care to give us some context? Also, take the doomsayers in this thread with a grain of salt. Some developers have bad experiences in their career and start thinking that all non-technical folks are just soul-sucking vampires, while often in reality they themselves are the source of the problems. I would say that your main function is to effectively communicate with the co-founders and be the bridge between technology and business goals. Make sure they're aware of pros and cons of every development related decision. Get used to saying no and pushing back on some of their ideas. Your main goal is building a successful business, writing clean code and using cool tech comes in secondary.