Mattan Griffel Co-founder of One Month. Faculty at Columbia Business School. I write about startups, technology, and philosophy.

Why Should You Learn How to Code?

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This past weekend, while attending a party in Brooklyn, I met a guy who started telling me a story about his startup and then went on to address me personally, “So I’ve heard about your One Month Rails class, but coding is not for me. Why Should I learn how to code? I’ll just hire someone to do it for me.”

This is such a common question.

If you don’t know how to code, when you hire a developer one of three things will most likely happen:

  1. You will pay too much
  2. You’ll be unhappy with the process
  3. You’ll get something back you didn’t want

I’d like to share with you a short video  – where I answer this question in more detail.

Why should you learn how to code? Here’s why…

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Mattan Griffel Co-founder of One Month. Faculty at Columbia Business School. I write about startups, technology, and philosophy.