Now what?

Maybe the ultimate example...

of a non-coder creating/running a technology company…Steve Jobs. From an interview with Steve Wozniak:

He couldn’t design a computer — he was never a designer or a programmer — but he could understand it well enough to understand what was good and what was bad.

Got any other founders of tech/web companies that aren’t coders? (did Kevin Rose write any of Digg?)

update: from the Y! Combinator newsboard, some discussion on non-hacker founders.

update #2: turns out Rob Kalin from Etsy is a non-techie and although not specifically programming related there’s this article about Rick Rubin with the following quote:

Rubin doesn’t read music or write lyrics, and has no idea what the knobs on a mixing board do. “I had my doubts,” says the Dixie Chicks’ Emily Robison. “How do you produce music if you can’t say, ‘O.K., from the D chord I want to hear going to the G?’ But somehow it just works.”