What are some good examples of successful growth/revenue oriented
companies with a non-technical founder who never found their technical founder and instead outsourced their development to a technical freelancer?
Calendly. He spent $200k on an MVP, but retained ownership and went on to be very successful with very little money raised early on. He eventually raised $350M at a ~$3B valuation, but that was after the product already had a lot of traction.
