"And if you can't code, and you can't get brilliant coders to like and respect you, you probably shouldn't be an entrepreneur." As a non-technical person, this

"And if you can't code, and you can't get brilliant coders to like and respect you, you probably shouldn't be an entrepreneur." As a non-technical person, this advice is harsh, but it's true. Yeah, your life is much easier if you have friends from high school who became coders while you went off into banking. And, yeah, it's all-but-impossible to find great coders except by happenstance, but it doesn't make this advice any less true. Of course, someone (maybe not necessarily VCs and angels) could make a killing if they would match up interested business guys with experience and understanding of large markets with brilliant technical people, but I suppose that hasn't happened to date for some reason. It's beyond my meager understanding, but there must be a reason.