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Maybe. If he’s a technical founder though what other position would you hold?
by Lio 1y ago
Maybe. If he’s a technical founder though what other position would you hold?
- senorrib 1y agoStaff engineer. Founders don’t necessarily need to hold CXO titles to work in the startups they founded.
- SJMG 1y agoA few examples that spring to mind, Steve Wozniak and Mitchell Hashimoto
- doctorleff 1y agoI recall James Goodnight of SAS coding while being a CEO. As per https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterhigh/2014/05/12/an-interview-with-the-godfather-of-data-analytics-sass-jim-goodnight/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterhigh/2014/05/12/an-intervi..., he still programs from time to time but doesn't have a specific part in development. In looking at the articles to refresh my memory, it is clear he is one of the good CEO's
- eitally 1y agoI don't think that's the model we should be looking at here. I'd add Stephen Wolfram to the very short list of similar technical CEOs.
- obiefernandez 1y agoTobi Luetke at Shopify too
- tanjtanjtanj 1y agoWasn't Mitchell Hashimoto only a non-CxO for a handful of months between stepping down and selling the company?
- SJMG 1y agoI'm not that familiar with his employment history; you could be right. Either way, he'd still be an example. If you have longer term ones, I'm sure it would add to the discussion
- noleary 1y agoIt's not that uncommon to keep the "CTO" title and not be the primary manager of the engineering organization. There are all kinds of things you can do with the org chart. If I recall correctly, Clickhouse works this way. The company's cofounders comprise three people [1]: * Aaron, a sales-oriented CEO from Elastic and Salesforce * Alexey, the original Clickhouse developer, as CTO * Yury, an experienced engineering executive from Google/Netflix as "President" An excerpt from the launch announcement [2]: > While negotiations were still ongoing, Katz decided they needed a third co-founder. “I kept thinking, if I could get a third co-founder to run product and engineering, and if I could find someone with the same level of experience building distributed systems on open-source that I have on go-to-market, it could be a really compelling combination,” Katz says. --- --- [1] https://clickhouse.com/company/our-story https://clickhouse.com/company/our-story [2] https://www.indexventures.com/perspectives/the-fast-and-the-furious-how-clickhouse-the-worlds-fastest-open-source-database-is-creating-the-first-real-time-data-warehouse/ https://www.indexventures.com/perspectives/the-fast-and-the-...