[throwawayian]

Don’t promote people who don’t understand building systems. Everything is a system above 100 people, focus on scaling the things that matter below 100.

HR and Finance? Route it all through 1 person and outsource anything that takes significant time.

Tech? Give equity and significant targets to the CTO who should also be CPO until about 80-100 people. Fire them if they aren’t planners.

[brettgriffin]

> CTO who should also be CPO

This is just awful, awful, awful advice. Please do not do this. Your technical leaders should think deeply about how to build a product, but not the product that is to be built. Asking them to do the latter is asking for absolute carnage.

[throwawayian]

When you’re smaller, the CPO doesn’t matter as much. Your business has an idea, your CEO and CTO knows what it should look like. Polish it later.