Dan Martell - May 17, 2022


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Episode Stats


Length

54 seconds

Words per minute

204.02194

Word count

186

Sentence count

7


Summary

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In this episode, I talk about the importance of having a technical advisor on your team, why you should hire a technical person, and the 4 strategies you need to know to survive as a non-technical founder in a world of technical people.

Transcript

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00:00:00.120 If you've never hired a technical person,
00:00:02.680 you don't even know what good code looks like.
00:00:04.120 They might do a test project, show you the code,
00:00:05.960 and you're like, well, this looks good.
00:00:07.640 Here's my strategy.
00:00:08.800 What I do is I hire somebody
00:00:11.080 that is very talented in development
00:00:14.080 to, on a weekly basis, one hour a week,
00:00:16.960 come in, look at the code, look at the infrastructure,
00:00:20.280 talk to the team, and then report back to you.
00:00:22.400 Literally, they act as you're kind of like
00:00:24.680 Rosetta Stone of understanding what's going on.
00:00:27.400 But an advisor, a technical advisor, hour a week,
00:00:29.800 That's to me how we verify the talent to make sure
00:00:33.420 that not only do we hire the right person,
00:00:35.000 but they also monitor things
00:00:37.040 and they're just part of the ongoing sanity check.
00:00:40.440 If you said, I'm not technical
00:00:41.760 and I wanna survive in building my SaaS product,
00:00:44.440 what do I need to know?
00:00:45.380 These are the four strategies that are gonna allow you
00:00:48.360 as a non-technical founder to play the game
00:00:51.200 at the highest level in a world of technical people.