Ask HN: How common is this view within software startup community?

A year ago I had an opportunity to visit a software startup incubator. The views within most of the aspiring founders in that incubator was that they do not require software engineers/professionals as a founding team member. The software can be developed using "interns or cheap Indians" and that way the founding teams do not have to share equity.

I heard the same argument recently by some other aspiring founders.

So just out of curiosity, how common is this view within the software startup community?