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Ask HN: Should I Learn to Code?

My goal is to start a tech company. I tried learning how to code and spent months learning HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, React Native, and a bit of Python. I can understand code, but I can't write it very well. I was wondering if you think I should keep learning to code, or if i should instead focus on learning marketing/sales/design (non technical founder skills), and then try to onboard a technical founder once I have something to show for myself other than an idea.

I'm 21, and I feel like right now I should take risks at starting businesses instead of focusing time on learning to code, especially since I know it takes a couple years to become "good" at coding.

What do you think?

4 points slymerson 3 years ago 6 comments

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