In dev circles the non-technical co-founder gets quietly disrespected, and I'm ashamed I bought into it early. My co-founder couldn't write a line, and here's what he did instead: he talked to more customers in a month than I had in a year, he closed the deals that kept the lights on, he figured out pricing that actually made us money, and he kept us pointed at problems people would pay for instead of problems that were fun to build. I built a great product that would have died without a single ...