I had the privilege of working under a CTO, who would personally write code for me when I got stuck. A big part of this was it was a smaller company, but even s

I had the privilege of working under a CTO, who would personally write code for me when I got stuck. A big part of this was it was a smaller company, but even so I definitely think Hands-On founders make the best founders. Because you can essentially hop in and fix something, even if your other engineers are but stuck. Plus knowing that you can personally increase your wealth by 6 million dollars with a couple of good lines of code doesn't hurt.