Ask HN: Startups with non-technical founders?
The question I'm asking is partly in case I do want to go down that road some day in the future, and partly just out of interest...
From what I've seen/read (correct me if I'm wrong), the majority of small technical startups have founders who are also the coders, and while I'm reasonably knowledgable in technical areas, and dabble in code, I've never wanted it as an actual career, and as such I've never got to a stage where it could be. If I wanted to be a founder of a startup but not be personally involved with the development myself, how likely is that to work? Does it happen more often than I assume already, or would it be a fairly weird structure?
Not asking just from a personal point of view... imagine someone thought of a new startup that has the potential to become absolutely huge, but they aren't able to build it themselves... how big a problem would it be?
Looking forward to hearing opinion.
edit: By "non-technical founders" I'm not talking about people who don't know the difference between two web browsers, but people who are technically savvy just not developers.