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Re:Five Years as a Startup CTO: How, Why, and Was It Worth It? by Aurornis on Saturday October 04, 2025 @03:28PM (#45475962)
There are a lot of defunct startups in my city that were started by engineers and CTOs. Some of them had good ideas and a few even had great execution of the product.

They all failed at sales, scaling, retention, and generally running the business.

I did work for one very successful company that was founded by an engineer. However, he was focused almost exclusively on non-engineering business functions from the start.

If you want to be a CTO and do engineering things, don’t assume founding your own company is the best way to get there.

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Re:Five Years as a Startup CTO: How, Why, and Was It Worth It? by epicureanideal on Saturday October 04, 2025 @04:29PM (#45476415)
> They all failed at sales, scaling, retention, and generally running the business.

This also applies to most non-technical, “business folks”-led businesses as well.

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