> I've barely seen a recent success story of a startup where less then 100% of the founders were technical.
Groupon and Zyngas's founders aren't programmers. I'd say they're the two biggest hits of the last 5 years.
Groupon and Zyngas's founders aren't programmers. I'd say they're the two biggest hits of the last 5 years.
Also, as the other commenter pointed out, Mark Pincus's co-founder Justin Waldron is a programmer, but Zynga's probably a bad example anyway because Pincus was very much an accomplished entrepreneur with a lot of resources at hand prior to founding Zynga.
But I get the point you're making and it's still valid.
Additionally it's not a good idea to use critical successes like that to extract any kind of lessons from. Groupon won the business plan lottery and found a real need in the market that wasn't being served. Zynga rode the coattails of facebook.
Obviously i'm not dismissing those companies accomplishments. The founders are idols to me.