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		dcow on June 12, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Silicon Valley's best kept secret: Founder liquidi... It’s not necessarily a red flag. Sometimes the founder/CEO is technical and decides to solo it with hired engineers until not having a real CTO is a flight risk, or until they’re too busy to be contributing code anymore, or both.

matthewsinclair on June 12, 2024 [–]

That is fair, assuming the CEO is technical, or technical _enough_. However, I see a lot of non-tech CEOs trying this on and in those cases, it is a red flag for me.

p1esk on June 12, 2024 | [–]

With cofounders it’s fairly typical for one to be technical and the other business savvy.

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