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I am doing this right now (paternity). I did what most of the comments suggested: asked someone to take on the essential parts of my role (CTO), and scaled back
by ghiculescu 4y ago
I am doing this right now (paternity). I did what most of the comments suggested: asked someone to take on the essential parts of my role (CTO), and scaled back the non-essentials over the course of a few months.
It’s going extremely well. I think the person who took on my role is doing it better than I used to. A spring clean of responsibilities was helpful and forced us to document / distribute a variety of things that used to fall on me for no good reason.
Feel free to email me if you want to discuss more.
And most importantly, congratulations! You’re going to love it. Whatever you do regarding work, structure it so you don’t have to think about it when you do 2am feeds (because you really won’t want to).
- temende 4y ago> asked someone to take on the essential parts of my role (CTO), and scaled back the non-essentials over the course of a few months Just curious - in this case, do you also increase their compensation and/or title to reflect their additional responsibilities?
- ghiculescu 4y agoNot for the temporary change - that’s a conversation for when I’m back.
- almostarockstar 4y agoCTO/Founder here. Coming up on 3 years with my co. Baby is 10 months now. Our tech team is small. Just me and three others. My experience was very similar. Tried to make a gradual wind-down, spent more time documenting and planning while stepping away from core functions. I will say that while “work” continued, “progress” slowed. People stepped up to manage, but nobody had the vision or the same passion for our product or future. I don’t blame them. It’s not their job.
- ghiculescu 4y agoGood to know. We are a bit more established (~125 people) so I’m hoping the vision can keep moving forward without me there. Thanks for sharing.