I come from the $MegaCorp world rather than startups. We shipped massively successful products reaching billions of people. Our managers did not write code, no

I come from the $MegaCorp world rather than startups. We shipped massively successful products reaching billions of people. Our managers did not write code, nor would they have been better managers if they did, IMO. They represented the team to the wider company, they facilitated communication across teams, kept us informed of changing goals and priorities, etc. Basically helped everybody row in the same direction.