[kwc98]

You need to be well-versed, experienced, able to work long hours, leap a tall building in a single bound. Building something that people can contribute to, not a tossed salad. Cool tech does not equal good code. Understand deployment, builds, branches, design, process, security. Be a one man show if needed, but be a real tech leader or else you will end up being the problem. There is more I am sure, but that will take you a long way I believe.

[mhassaan]

so it implies that every full stack dev is capable of tech cto of start up company , right?

[kwc98]

I think a full-stack dev would be a good place to start. Does not make you a leader, but yes it does fill a lot of check-boxes I think.