He knew how to code, but when he graduated school, Andrew Chen decided to go into venture capital. Since then, he’s used his technical background to become an advisor and investor in many tech startups, including Dropbox, Product Hunt, and AngelList. He talks with us about how he leveraged his coding skills to being a tech advisor, how he’s maintained a solid blog for over eight years, and why you don’t have to be a great coder to build something great. Show Links Square (sponsor) Flatiron School (sponsor) Red Hat (sponsor) Actualize (sponsor) Codeland 2019 Codeland Conf Mohr Davidow Ventures Product Hunt Ryan Hoover Y Combinator Front CodeNewbie Slack Community K Cups Eric Reis WordPress AngelList Wanelo Dropbox Drew Houston Mark Zuckerberg Linode Discourse Joshua Porter Randi Komisar The Monk and the Riddle Archie search engine Veronica search engine Gopher Minimum Viable Product BASIC SquareSpace Growth Hacking Is The New VP Marketing