Also in the background: technical founders often get treated as second class, replaceable citizens that can be pushed out and/or diluted. Consider the develope

Also in the background: technical founders often get treated as second class, replaceable citizens that can be pushed out and/or diluted. Consider the developed company equivalent: that as you rise, you must become more and more of a people manager contributing not higher quality, more impactful and difficult technical challenges but pushed into politics and "influence". If you don't bow to that pattern and you don't stay sufficiently outside of anyone's attention you'll be pushed out.