I have an economics and accounting degree, and taught myself to program at my first job as a Business Analyst. We were using some terrible off the shelf vendor

I have an economics and accounting degree, and taught myself to program at my first job as a Business Analyst. We were using some terrible off the shelf vendor product for business intelligence. I knew I could do better, so I built one. They never retitled my job, so I went looking for a real programming job and got one at a YC company. In my interview over Google hangouts I screen shared a demo of what I'd built. As long as you can prove that you can build software, you don't need a degree.