> The role of the CTO is to balance several different business objectives
Sounds to me like he's still given too many responsibilities to the CTO, which is fine for a small company but won't scale either.
First two are for VP of Product, third is VP of Eng and the fourth is the one that CTO should really focus on
In a bigger company, CTO wouldn't write requirements even. They would be focused on vision and roadmap and work with others to do research and make the requirements concrete.
