People are asking this a lot about YC companies within a few weeks of birth. It's not a silly question, but it is perhaps not the best time to best asking. Most of them don't know yet. That isn't exactly unprecedented: Google didn't know it was a contextual advertising company when it launched, etc.
Given the amounts spent on employee training in the US, I think that if you had a magic box which said "Put non-programmers in the left end, programmers come out the right end", you would not be in a bad place in life. Heck, people make millions upon millions doing the same thing just for MS Excel.
People are asking this a lot about YC companies within a few weeks of birth. It's not a silly question, but it is perhaps not the best time to best asking. Most of them don't know yet. That isn't exactly unprecedented: Google didn't know it was a contextual advertising company when it launched, etc.
Given the amounts spent on employee training in the US, I think that if you had a magic box which said "Put non-programmers in the left end, programmers come out the right end", you would not be in a bad place in life. Heck, people make millions upon millions doing the same thing just for MS Excel.