[lurk2]

> Early stage the CTO is the most critical, but after real traction they can be replaced far easier than most want to admit.

If the technical founder can be replaced so easily, how does it follow that the non-technical founder is less valuable?

[greatpostman]

Once the business hits a certain level of revenue, the mvp is finished etc, whoever is the face of the company, I.e. CEO has way more power. CTO if they have shipped a complete product that’s getting paying customers can be replaced with an engineering manager. But not before

Getting the product to some level of completion is a monumental lift

[TuringNYC]

>> If the technical founder can be replaced so easily, how does it follow that the non-technical founder is less valuable?

Because at that point, you can raise VC cash and hire for the job instead. The idea has been vetted. You can theoretically even rebuild the entire codebase from scratch just looking at the existing app. The CTO should maintain equal voting rights for as long as possible