I absolutely disagree. Someone you work with every day who is an intimate partner in your company that you depend on for your livelihood is far from someone tha

I absolutely disagree. Someone you work with every day who is an intimate partner in your company that you depend on for your livelihood is far from someone that you can terminate with no hard feelings. I'm sure anyone who has built a company and had to part with a CTO knows that there were many many feelings involved and it was a real partnership and by no means easy.