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Why do they push the founding engineer out?

• ceautery 5y ago
  I don't think it's planned, it's just how things tend to turn out. At least for the three startups I've worked with. If you're really good at cranking out code before your fledgling company runs out of money, that doesn't necessarily mean you're good at people management or leading. At a certain size, your company is going to need those skills more, and won't want to keep someone around at a C-level salary who's just slinging code. The founding eng directors I've met all separated for different reasons. One took a buyout after the company was purchased, another had a side business that became profitable and helped find his own replacement, and the last one had his role downgraded when the company hired a CTO, and just got another job.
• convolvatron 5y ago
  often its because the founder has a very different picture of why the company was founded and where it should be headed than the new vc-installed management. its very much 'we love your passion' until its 'turn it down, we're trying to make money here'