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0 pointsLio7mo ago0 comments

Maybe. If he’s a technical founder though what other position would you hold?

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It's not that uncommon to keep the "CTO" title and not be the primary manager of the engineering organization. There are all kinds of things you can do with the org chart. If I recall correctly, Clickhouse works this way.

The company's cofounders comprise three people [1]:

* Aaron, a sales-oriented CEO from Elastic and Salesforce

* Alexey, the original Clickhouse developer, as CTO

* Yury, an experienced engineering executive from Google/Netflix as "President"

An excerpt from the launch announcement [2]:

> While negotiations were still ongoing, Katz decided they needed a third co-founder. “I kept thinking, if I could get a third co-founder to run product and engineering, and if I could find someone with the same level of experience building distributed systems on open-source that I have on go-to-market, it could be a really compelling combination,” Katz says.

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[1] https://clickhouse.com/company/our-story

[2] https://www.indexventures.com/perspectives/the-fast-and-the-...

senorrib7mo ago

Staff engineer. Founders don’t necessarily need to hold CXO titles to work in the startups they founded.

SJMG7mo ago

A few examples that spring to mind, Steve Wozniak and Mitchell Hashimoto

tanjtanjtanj7mo ago

Wasn't Mitchell Hashimoto only a non-CxO for a handful of months between stepping down and selling the company?

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doctorleff7mo ago

I recall James Goodnight of SAS coding while being a CEO. As per https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterhigh/2014/05/12/an-intervi..., he still programs from time to time but doesn't have a specific part in development. In looking at the articles to refresh my memory, it is clear he is one of the good CEO's

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