I've seen this direct CTO work scale to a billion-a-year online business with hundreds of engineers :-) Problems come when a company goes public and now there'

I've seen this direct CTO work scale to a billion-a-year online business with hundreds of engineers :-) Problems come when a company goes public and now there's no single personal that can accept responsibility for technical commitments. This when a decision-making system has to be put in place, and maybe a way to assess how teams are doing, etc.