Why Every Developer Should Experience Being a Founder At Least Once

From starting a web development agency in Mumbai to managing engineering teams at US companies like Zillow and back to starting again in Mumbai, I've spent more than ten years pursuing both paths. As a result, I have a unique perspective on how the founder mindset can help you advance your career, change the way you approach coding, and land a position.

We as developers often pride ourselves on our coding skills. However, the transition from coder to entrepreneur leads to an important realization: 80% of the work involves understanding consumer needs, selecting products, and yes, even managing marketing, coding makes up only 20% of the work. This realization can be very unsettling at first as it challenges our understanding of our function and worth, but, you quickly discover that it makes you a more complete engineer while creating an impact.

We learn to make difficult judgments about what features to add to the product and even more about what to remove by doing user interviews and figuring out why people act in strange ways. Your path to becoming an engineering leader begins when you begin to see the wider picture and lead to actual product success.

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