The article is making a valid point, but there is an equally valid counter-point that I think is being obscured. Many technical co-founders expect that coding is the entirety of what they will do, hence the shopping list of a non-technical co-founder who will do 'everything else'/'all the boring bits'.

If the only thing you - as a technical person - are bringing to the founders table is programming skills, then you're at the wrong table. Get yo bitch ass over to the 'low digit employee number queue'.

You might be one of the first employees, but you're not co-founder material. Technical people who only bring coding skills are just as worthless as non-technical people who only bring an idea.