[levleontiev]

>does he get penalized if part of the dev team gets hired by another company, which makes it harder for him to hit the milestones?

Of course yes. The part of executive responsibility is to maintain the team and calculate the riscs .

[gnicholas]

Oh sure, but if the reason the employees were poached was because the non-technical founder refused to pay the dev employees more, then whose fault is it?

[j45]

It was about non technical founders who don’t give technical founders equal footing for the work they’re doing that they can’t.