I have a BA with a double major in philosophy and history. Turns out that nobody will pay you to do either of those, so I am a programmer. I had started program

I have a BA with a double major in philosophy and history. Turns out that nobody will pay you to do either of those, so I am a programmer. I had started programming many years earlier, as a child, so there wasn't really any transition. I have never run into any problems related to not having a CS degree. The tech industry is, in general, the most purely meritocritous social and business system I've seen. If you can demonstrate an ability to write quality working code, nothing else matters, they'll hire you. (The very few tech industry people who care about you having a CS degree as such are not often people you'd want to work for anyway.) Having a phil degree helps in better understanding other people's worldviews, which is indirectly useful in many areas of startup life.