Definitely sounds like poor communication between founders. As an aside, I've been the founding CEO of a company that raised money and was acquired. I think my

Definitely sounds like poor communication between founders. As an aside, I've been the founding CEO of a company that raised money and was acquired. I think my gifts make me really effective in running a company from idea stage to first revenue. I'm likely not the right person to run that company once there are 1000 employees. I'm fine with that I don't think there's anything wrong with the exec team asking you to scale back your contributions if your skill set no longer matches the needs of the company. It just sounds like your partners chose a shitty way to go about it.