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Based on the thousands of companies YC has funded over the years, the biggest common element between all successful startups is having technical talent on the founding team. But what do you do if you don't know how to code? You may think you can get by using no-code tools, part-time consultants, or dev shops to bring your startup idea to life. But that thinking is wrong. In this episode of Dalton & Michael, we’ll discuss exactly why that is and why recruiting a technical co-founder is the single biggest way to create value as someone trying to start the next big thing. Apply to Y Combinator: https://yc.link/DandM-apply Work at a Startup: https://yc.link/DandM-jobs Chapters (Powered by https://bit.ly/chapterme-yc) - 00:00 - Coming Up 00:32 - Technical Founders 01:52 - The Intersection 05:06 - Software Engineers 09:18 - How to Find Them 10:31 - Ask The Best 11:28 - How Not to Pitch 13:26 - The Adventure 14:17 - Great Recruiters
"you're offering Adventure you're offering the unknown and Adventure isn't here's my idea for a social network for dogs will you build my website no let's build a company together together yes welcome ..."
"this up um Michael and I both talk to a lot of aspiring Founders in any number of different venues on the street at conferences in interviews wherever like they find us they find us and one of the mor..."
"imagine the intersection there's the set of people that are great business Founders yes and there's the set of people that can recruit amazing technical co-founders yes you want to be in the intersect..."
"more business people need to embrace the idea that great software companies are built by great software Engineers yep a common retort out here is like d we're not building a software business software..."
"all right Michael all right you guys convinced me I guess whatever but I don't you know sure guy you know I guess that's a point you can make I don't know but Michael I don't know anyone where do I fi..."
"thought experiment I encourage people to do visualize the best person you have ever worked with either in school or in your job the best engineer that everyone knows is the best person yes can you vis..."
"happens again to go deep on this is that the way they'll pitch the person is they'll pitch them their idea they be like I'm an idea guy I've got a great idea do you want to be my like worker be to go ..."
"you know I'll tell you what he promise me it wasn't that the idea was going to work like it was the adventure okay it was the adventure and like I think what's so interesting when people like don't as..."
"that um we're trying you know I think that there's like I'll say this right I'm a business guy right I think YC has a lot of messaging that's like yeah our business guy is important D like you don't n..."