You may hate coding, but remember that the market does not care about what you like and what you don't like. The fact is that tech businesses are at the moment by far the fastest way to build a HUGE fortune. You could be a billionaire in 5 years - that's how fast it can be (there are people who have achieved this). Tech has disrupted gigantic industries and has led to newly minted empires - think hotels with Airbnb, taxis with Uber, commerce with Amazon, automation with companies like UI Path, and so on.Every day since I joined the forum the first page gets more and more filled with Web Design and Coding threads as it is the only way to succeed in this times.
Me myself I can't stare at small words and numbers on a black screen for longer than 5 minutes before my head starts hurting so I simply shifted my focus away from making SaaS businesses myself.
Nothing is perfect so there will always be chances to improve, change and lover the cost of production of different physical products. So don't bust your head open if you don't want to type all day.
I still get fascinated when I meet a particular guy that comes to a cafe I work in and starts typing away on his laptop while I wonder if he's just a programmer or an entrepreneur but it doesn't spark a want to learn so I won't.
I like dealing with people and physical stuff not with lines of code, if you do as well don't try to change who you are just shift your focus from "how am I going to learn Python, C#, Ruby, Java, HTML even though I can't stand it" to "how can I prevent theft of clothes in shopping malls or socks that prevent or weaken the pain of wearing new leather shoes or stubbing your toes.
But I'm sure that down the road I will get my hands on SaaS businesses just not by making them but by buying them.
Every time I talk to programmer I get hyped, because I like to know at least something about it but when it comes to technical stuff I'll pass.
In today's age, the only companies that get funded at exorbitant valuations are tech companies. And the fastest way to make a TON of money is to do it with investors' money. That money becomes yours to one extent or another since you control it, AND on top of that investors have connections that are almost guaranteed to get you some big fat contracts - that's why they're investing in the first place.
If your goal is to be the world's richest man, then you're literally wasting your time every second you spend outside of tech. And I'm saying this as someone who does not own a tech business (I run a marketing/ biz dev agency). It will take you DECADES to build the kind of wealth that others can achieve in even less than 2 years by using other people's money and connections, in an industry that the market is currently going crazy for.
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