{"id":2654,"date":"2018-01-16T06:40:20","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T12:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/?p=2654"},"modified":"2021-11-21T12:36:42","modified_gmt":"2021-11-21T18:36:42","slug":"founding-engineer-or-cto-translated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2654","title":{"rendered":"Founding Engineer or CTO, translated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you wanted to re-read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2555\">my post about the various technical roles<\/a> a co-founder can take as a startup grows in Russian, <a href=\"http:\/\/howtorecover.me\/inzener-ucreditel-direktor\">you can, here<\/a>.\u00a0 Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/howtorecover.me\/\">Vlad<\/a> for the translation.<\/p>\n<p>Bonus!\u00a0 Here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=15972357\">discussion on Hacker News<\/a>, including <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=15974281\">my favorite comment<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"c00\">Having been on both sides of the situation a couple times, the distinction is pretty simple for me: do you have a seat on the board?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>If you have a board seat, great, you&#8217;re a real founder\/CTO!<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re not interested in the board seat or you&#8217;re aware that you don&#8217;t bring enough to the table to earn it, you&#8217;re a good candidate for a founding engineer. You should be happy!<\/p>\n<p>If the other founder(s) want you to be a founder\/CTO without the board seat, run! They&#8217;re just using the prestige of the title to pay you less, and will revoke it at the first convenience.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you wanted to re-read my post about the various technical roles a co-founder can take as a startup grows in Russian, you can, here.\u00a0 Thanks to Vlad for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jobs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2654"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2656,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654\/revisions\/2656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}