Everyone would benefit from a high-level understanding of programming, if that constitutes "learning how to code" then I guess so. If you mean should you be able to meaningfully contribute to the actual work of the programmers, probably not, as a co-founder you likely have better things to be doing.
The reason everyone would benefit from this high level understanding is the ubiquity of computation. It's going to affect all our lives, like it or not, you should understand at least a little about something like that if you can. You want a population who have a useful mental model when they're told e.g. that parole will now be decided by "an algorithm" and will ask useful questions like "Will we be provided with an understandable explanation of the algorithm or its decisions that we can criticise?" or "What parameters is the algorithm to consider?" not "Will the algorithm have a man's voice or a woman's voice?" or "What if the algorithm becomes sentient and tries to kill us all?"
It is always beneficial to learn something new, but do not expect to write production ready code in less than two years learning/practice. So learn how to code as a hobby, and for your business concentrate on your field of expertise, deepen it, communicate a lot with technical people.
My answer is yes. Of course, everyone does its own job, and can't learn everything but basic essentials in programming will help to understand each other better
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[ 4.0 ms ] story [ 17.9 ms ] threadThe reason everyone would benefit from this high level understanding is the ubiquity of computation. It's going to affect all our lives, like it or not, you should understand at least a little about something like that if you can. You want a population who have a useful mental model when they're told e.g. that parole will now be decided by "an algorithm" and will ask useful questions like "Will we be provided with an understandable explanation of the algorithm or its decisions that we can criticise?" or "What parameters is the algorithm to consider?" not "Will the algorithm have a man's voice or a woman's voice?" or "What if the algorithm becomes sentient and tries to kill us all?"