Re:Ask HN: Does the CEO need to set the strategy or can a co...
by muzani on Friday March 27, 2020 @07:35PM
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CEO is the one with all the information. The one with the most information and the most rationality should make decisions.
That doesn't necessarily mean creating a strategy, but sometimes just approving one.
And like in your case, often a startup CEO gets burdened with technical, funding, sales, finance, legal, and so on. I personally resolved never to be a CEO & CTO again, because you're effectively a solo founder for a good portion of time - the non-CEO cofounder can't do a lot of things and development is often the bottleneck.
That doesn't necessarily mean creating a strategy, but sometimes just approving one.
And like in your case, often a startup CEO gets burdened with technical, funding, sales, finance, legal, and so on. I personally resolved never to be a CEO & CTO again, because you're effectively a solo founder for a good portion of time - the non-CEO cofounder can't do a lot of things and development is often the bottleneck.