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Build less before you know more 🧪 Sophia Matveeva

You can build a tech company without becoming a developer, as long as you understand enough to work properly with the people building it.

Sophia Matveeva, founder of Tech for Non-Techies, learned that after raising money for her first startup and hiring a technical team. She was the CEO, but when a developer started talking about building the back end on Ruby on Rails, she realised she had no idea what he meant.

Her first instinct was to learn to code. After taking computer science and Python courses, she realised she was spending hours learning skills that wouldn’t help her do her actual…

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