What are some examples of successful software companies that were coded by a founder with no previous technical knowledge?<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Many successful software companies have been founded by individuals who previously had no knowledge of coding and talk themselves. In this blog post,\u00a0I will outline successful founders and the companies which they created. Each founder has a different story but all have a similar background of not having a formal coding education. 1) Jason […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1053,40],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21967","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-articles","8":"category-programming"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n11 Great Software Founders With No Prior Technical Knowledge<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"We look at 11 great software founders that had no previous technical knowledge. Discover what made them so successful.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/12-software-companies-no-previous-technical-knowledge\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"11 Great Software Founders With No Prior Technical Knowledge\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We look at 11 great software founders that had no previous technical knowledge. Discover what made them so successful.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/12-software-companies-no-previous-technical-knowledge\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"CrazyLeaf Design Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/crazyleafdesign\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/crazyleafdesign\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-09-07T11:48:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2017-09-25T04:53:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-07-at-1.47.59-PM.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1360\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"902\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"CrazyLeaf Editorial\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@crazyleaf\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@crazyleaf\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"CrazyLeaf Editorial\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/12-software-companies-no-previous-technical-knowledge\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/12-software-companies-no-previous-technical-knowledge\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"CrazyLeaf Editorial\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/b6a5ee60ad8ef2b81b481fc4deb4b9d0\"},\"headline\":\"11 Great Software Founders With No Prior Technical Knowledge\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-09-07T11:48:37+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-09-25T04:53:10+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/12-software-companies-no-previous-technical-knowledge\/\"},\"wordCount\":1070,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/12-software-companies-no-previous-technical-knowledge\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-07-at-1.47.59-PM.png\",\"articleSection\":[\"Articles\",\"Programming\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/12-software-companies-no-previous-technical-knowledge\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/12-software-companies-no-previous-technical-knowledge\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/12-software-companies-no-previous-technical-knowledge\/\",\"name\":\"11 Great Software Founders With No Prior Technical Knowledge\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/12-software-companies-no-previous-technical-knowledge\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/12-software-companies-no-previous-technical-knowledge\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-07-at-1.47.59-PM.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-09-07T11:48:37+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-09-25T04:53:10+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/b6a5ee60ad8ef2b81b481fc4deb4b9d0\"},\"description\":\"We look at 11 great software founders that had no previous technical knowledge. Discover what made them so successful.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/12-software-companies-no-previous-technical-knowledge\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/12-software-companies-no-previous-technical-knowledge\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/12-software-companies-no-previous-technical-knowledge\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-07-at-1.47.59-PM.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-07-at-1.47.59-PM.png\",\"width\":1360,\"height\":902,\"caption\":\"technical founder on computer\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/12-software-companies-no-previous-technical-knowledge\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Articles\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/category\/articles\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"11 Great Software Founders With No Prior Technical Knowledge\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"CrazyLeaf Design Blog\",\"description\":\"LETS INSPIRE IN WEB AND GRAPHIC DESIGN!\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/b6a5ee60ad8ef2b81b481fc4deb4b9d0\",\"name\":\"CrazyLeaf Editorial\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/921c173337b5042f53fa9062d500b84b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/921c173337b5042f53fa9062d500b84b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"CrazyLeaf Editorial\"},\"description\":\"Follow us on Twitter @crazyleaf , Facebook , Pinterest\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\",\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/crazyleafdesign\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/crazyleaf\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/author\/administrator\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"11 Great Software Founders With No Prior Technical Knowledge","description":"We look at 11 great software founders that had no previous technical knowledge. Discover what made them so successful.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/12-software-companies-no-previous-technical-knowledge\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"11 Great Software Founders With No Prior Technical Knowledge","og_description":"We look at 11 great software founders that had no previous technical knowledge. Discover what made them so successful.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/12-software-companies-no-previous-technical-knowledge\/","og_site_name":"CrazyLeaf Design Blog","article_publisher":"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/crazyleafdesign","article_author":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/crazyleafdesign","article_published_time":"2016-09-07T11:48:37+00:00","article_modified_time":"2017-09-25T04:53:10+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1360,"height":902,"url":"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-07-at-1.47.59-PM.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"CrazyLeaf Editorial","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@crazyleaf","twitter_site":"@crazyleaf","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"CrazyLeaf Editorial","Est. reading time":"5 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/12-software-companies-no-previous-technical-knowledge\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/12-software-companies-no-previous-technical-knowledge\/"},"author":{"name":"CrazyLeaf Editorial","@id":"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/b6a5ee60ad8ef2b81b481fc4deb4b9d0"},"headline":"11 Great Software Founders With No Prior Technical Knowledge","datePublished":"2016-09-07T11:48:37+00:00","dateModified":"2017-09-25T04:53:10+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/12-software-companies-no-previous-technical-knowledge\/"},"wordCount":1070,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/12-software-companies-no-previous-technical-knowledge\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-07-at-1.47.59-PM.png","articleSection":["Articles","Programming"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/12-software-companies-no-previous-technical-knowledge\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/12-software-companies-no-previous-technical-knowledge\/","url":"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/12-software-companies-no-previous-technical-knowledge\/","name":"11 Great Software Founders With No Prior Technical Knowledge","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/12-software-companies-no-previous-technical-knowledge\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/12-software-companies-no-previous-technical-knowledge\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-07-at-1.47.59-PM.png","datePublished":"2016-09-07T11:48:37+00:00","dateModified":"2017-09-25T04:53:10+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/b6a5ee60ad8ef2b81b481fc4deb4b9d0"},"description":"We look at 11 great software founders that had no previous technical knowledge. Discover what made them so successful.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/12-software-companies-no-previous-technical-knowledge\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/12-software-companies-no-previous-technical-knowledge\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/12-software-companies-no-previous-technical-knowledge\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-07-at-1.47.59-PM.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-07-at-1.47.59-PM.png","width":1360,"height":902,"caption":"technical founder on computer"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/12-software-companies-no-previous-technical-knowledge\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Articles","item":"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/category\/articles\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"11 Great Software Founders With No Prior Technical Knowledge"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/","name":"CrazyLeaf Design Blog","description":"LETS INSPIRE IN WEB AND GRAPHIC DESIGN!","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/b6a5ee60ad8ef2b81b481fc4deb4b9d0","name":"CrazyLeaf Editorial","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/921c173337b5042f53fa9062d500b84b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/921c173337b5042f53fa9062d500b84b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"CrazyLeaf Editorial"},"description":"Follow us on Twitter @crazyleaf , Facebook , Pinterest","sameAs":["https:\/\/crazyleafdesign.com\/blog","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/crazyleafdesign","https:\/\/x.com\/crazyleaf"],"url":"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/author\/administrator\/"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-07-at-1.47.59-PM.png","wps_subtitle":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21970,"href":"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21967\/revisions\/21970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21967"},{"taxonomy":"adace-sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adace-sponsor?post=21967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![\"technical](\"https:\/\/crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-07-at-1.47.59-PM-1024x679.png\")
<\/p>\n