Regardless of industry, a non-technical founder can still offer many things, including fundraising (whether via connections or hustle), sales, admin, the boring

Regardless of industry, a non-technical founder can still offer many things, including fundraising (whether via connections or hustle), sales, admin, the boring research like talking to customers, dealing with accounting, legal... (I've also personally found that to have one person focused on figuring out what problems are worth solving, and the other on solving them, works very well, but many engineers are also good at and enjoy figuring out what problems to solve). It's not just about relative ability, it's a question of motivation - few engineers truly enjoy putting on their tie to pitch 100 potential investors in a row, or convincing the first few clients to pony up for the product, with 95% of cases ending in a painful rejection. In fact, if a non-technical founder (I'm looking at you MBAs "interested in entrepreneurship") wants to increase his chances with the better engineers, he can always do so by closing a sale and presenting the evidence to the technical people he is trying to hire for the job. "I've gotten a written commitment to $100,000 if we build this relatively simple piece of software, and I have another four watching, we won't need seed funding" is a considerably more attractive proposition than "hey, please build this for free and according to this PowerPoint from my Tech Ventures class we'll own a billion dollar market next year".