[dirtyaura]

If you are going to build a company, not a team of 2, the core skill of CTO is to ability to hire talented technical people to the correct positions. This is hard. Most people can't do this well.

Most of the early stage teams are better off to avoid using C-titles and talk this through from the get-go. The founders and first employees might be great builders, but not necessarily great CTOs when you start to grow the team.

[chrisbennet]

That probably goes for the non-technical founder as well right? I.e. bring in someone more experienced to grow the business once the founders proves the market exists.