{"id":4590,"date":"2016-06-15T17:23:18","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T11:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/?p=4590"},"modified":"2016-06-15T17:23:18","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T11:53:18","slug":"sneak-peek-successful-tech-startups-non-technical-founders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/?p=4590","title":{"rendered":"A Sneak Peek Into Successful Tech Startups By Non-Technical Founders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not all tech startups today are founded by engineers or computer scientists. There are some trailblazers who jumped into the tech startup world without proper tech knowledge themselves, and yet they have held their own in the super-competitive startup environment.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of them:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3><strong>Brian Chesky of Airbnb:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Brian Chesky co-founded<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ishwark6.sg-host.com\/lets-know-startup-funding-cycle\/\"> Airbnb<\/a>, a hospitality exchange service, and is CEO of the firm. Brian has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Industrial design, a far cry from the vision of his company which was to ease travel and hospitality in today\u2019s world. He was named one of Time magazine\u2019s \u201c100 Most Influential People of 2015\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ishwark6.sg-host.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/airbnb.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4595 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ishwark6.sg-host.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/airbnb.png\" alt=\"airbnb\" width=\"609\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/airbnb.png 1200w, https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/airbnb-300x158@2x.png 600w, https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/airbnb-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/airbnb-768x403.png 768w, https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/airbnb-1024x538.png 1024w, https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/airbnb-351x185.png 351w, https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/airbnb-351x185@2x.png 702w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 609px) 100vw, 609px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3><strong>Jessica Scorpio of GetAround:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Founder of GetAround, the young Jessica Scorpio holds a degree in Political Science. She got the idea for the company after attending a program for young leaders tackling world problems. GetAround lets users rent out their own cars when not in use to other users who don\u2019t own cars themselves, thus saving a lot of money on both sides.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ishwark6.sg-host.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/getaround_logo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4599 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ishwark6.sg-host.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/getaround_logo.jpg\" alt=\"getaround_logo\" width=\"634\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/getaround_logo.jpg 1107w, https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/getaround_logo-300x75@2x.jpg 600w, https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/getaround_logo-300x75.jpg 300w, https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/getaround_logo-768x191.jpg 768w, https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/getaround_logo-1024x254.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3><strong>Walker Williams of Teespring:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Walker Williams founded Teespring along with Evan Stites-Clayton while still studying at Brown University. They started Teespring in an effort to sell protest T-shirts. The idea took off and in the last year Teespring sold nearly 6 million shirts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ishwark6.sg-host.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Teespring-payoneer-1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4604 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ishwark6.sg-host.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Teespring-payoneer-1.png\" alt=\"Teespring-payoneer\" width=\"628\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Teespring-payoneer-1.png 1200w, https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Teespring-payoneer-1-300x157@2x.png 600w, https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Teespring-payoneer-1-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Teespring-payoneer-1-768x401.png 768w, https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Teespring-payoneer-1-1024x535.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 628px) 100vw, 628px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3><strong>James Beshara of Tilt:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>James Beshara came up with the idea for Tilt when he was working in Africa as a collection agent for micro loans. A couple of name changes later, he developed the final idea of a micro-crowd funding platform into Tilt which allows people to pool together money for anything \u2013 from organizing parties to even buying houses.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ishwark6.sg-host.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Tilt_Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4602 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ishwark6.sg-host.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Tilt_Logo.png\" alt=\"Tilt_Logo\" width=\"608\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Tilt_Logo.png 1600w, https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Tilt_Logo-300x124@2x.png 600w, https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Tilt_Logo-300x124.png 300w, https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Tilt_Logo-768x317.png 768w, https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Tilt_Logo-1024x422.png 1024w, https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Tilt_Logo-768x317@2x.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3><strong>Rashmi Sinha of SlideShare:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Rashmi Sinha holds a degree in cognitive neuro-psychology from Brown University and also studied human-computer interaction at the University of California. She started SlideShare along with her husband and brother as a platform to share presentations. SlideShare was bought by LinkedIn in 2012 for a whopping $100 million.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ishwark6.sg-host.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/slidesharelogo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4600 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ishwark6.sg-host.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/slidesharelogo.jpg\" alt=\"slidesharelogo\" width=\"618\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/slidesharelogo.jpg 871w, https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/slidesharelogo-300x103@2x.jpg 600w, https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/slidesharelogo-300x103.jpg 300w, https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/slidesharelogo-768x265.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3><strong>Evan Sharp of Pinterest: <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Sharp is the Chief Creative Officer of Pinterest. He actually studied architecture at the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. He also has a bachelor\u2019s degree in history from the University of Chicago. Pinterest is an online photo sharing platform where individuals can \u201cpin\u201d images as ideas for future reference.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ishwark6.sg-host.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/pinterest.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4597 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ishwark6.sg-host.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/pinterest.jpg\" alt=\"pinterest\" width=\"621\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/pinterest.jpg 680w, https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/pinterest-300x132@2x.jpg 600w, https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/pinterest-300x132.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 621px) 100vw, 621px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3><strong>Aaron Levie of Box:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Aaron Levie co-founded Box which is an enterprise cloud storage company. Aaron was studying at the University of Southern California when he got the idea for Box along with his friend Dylan Smith. Box started by offering cloud storage solutions to individuals, but later moved onto selling only to businesses in 2007.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ishwark6.sg-host.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/unnamed.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4603 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ishwark6.sg-host.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/unnamed.png\" alt=\"Box\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/unnamed-150x150@2x.png 300w, https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/unnamed-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/unnamed-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So these are the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ishwark6.sg-host.com\/key-steps-successful-startup-funding\/\">success stories<\/a> of some \u2018plain\u2019 Johns and Janes who were not afraid to dive into the tech startup world in spite of coming from varied backgrounds, none of which were even remotely connected to the technological stream or their current startup.<\/p>\n<p>This just goes on to prove that whichever stream your education may be in, it shouldn\u2019t stop you from chasing your dreams.<\/p>\n<p>Like this article? Help keeping us with this good work by sharing this with your friends and adding comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not all tech startups today are founded by engineers or computer scientists. There are some trailblazers who jumped into the tech startup world without proper tech knowledge themselves, and yet they have held their own in the super-competitive startup environment. 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