You couldn't be further off base. I've built two companies from scratch and I did all of the "cleaning the trash" work as did all my team members. Nevertheles

You couldn't be further off base. I've built two companies from scratch and I did all of the "cleaning the trash" work as did all my team members. Nevertheless, it takes different skill types to build a technology organization. Some will be super technical while some will be more process driven. Some will be inspired to work on all of the latest technologies but hate doing garden-variety feature coding or bug fixing while some people are great utility players. My post was silent on the issue of whether people with "titles" should do grunt work. And to imply that I said otherwise is a misrepresentation of the post.