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Is Rose really "non-technical"? Maybe I was just duped by TechTV/G4 and some of that other stuff, but he sounded like he'd done at least some coding in the past

Is Rose really "non-technical"? Maybe I was just duped by TechTV/G4 and some of that other stuff, but he sounded like he'd done at least some coding in the past. Is this incorrect? He doesn't seem naive enough to call a "non-technical founder". Maybe a "non-expert founder"?

devs1010 15y ago
yes, he is, or at least was when he started. I read that he hired some freelancer in Canada to build the initial Digg site rather than having worked on it himself.
- mikeryan 15y ago
  http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ojbyrne http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ojbyrne
  - devs1010 15y ago
    thank you for the link, so why I am getting down-voted for this?
ojbyrne 15y ago
Kevin couldn't write a line of code if his life depended on it. He routinely misrepresents that fact.
mikeryan 15y ago
Technical or not isn't really the point - he'd never worked with or lead engineering teams and didn't know how to hire or fire them. That's all kind of beside the point however. Jay Adelson was there pretty early on he should have been technically savvy enough to avoid these pitfalls.