Editor's note: The following is the fourth profile in a series of articles about startup founders from non-technical backgrounds who have launched successful venture-backed companies. Read the previous interviews with MagicSchool AI founder Adeel Khan here, Trunk Tools founder Sarah Buchner here, and Tabs founder Ali Hussain here. By conventional Silicon Valley standards, Ilya Levtov had some of the credentials one might expect of a startup founder: Stanford Business School, experience as a VC on Sand Hill Road, and time working inside a fast-growing venture-backed startup. 'I've never written a line of code in my life,' Levtov told Crunchbase News in an interview. Years later, after building Craft, a 12-year-old San Francisco-based supply chain software company that he says now works with 35 federal agencies and generates double-digit millions of dollars in annual recurring revenue, that remains true: 'And I still haven't written a single line of code.' Over the years, Levtov...
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