Can a marketer be a co-founder without technical skills?
Short answer
Yes, and it is one of the more common founding pairs in software. The constraint is not technical ability, it is whether you own a function the company would otherwise have to hire for. A marketer who can independently produce demand is filling a role that is genuinely half the business. A marketer who can only produce plans that someone else must execute is not.
The longer version
This question comes up inside a longer piece on the same problem. If the short answer above raised more questions than it settled, the full article has the reasoning behind it.
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