Fair response. My thought of startup is definitely in the mold of rapid growth an expansion to MVP and finding product-market fit as fast as possible. I think its a safe assumption to make on HN given that it is a public facing arm of YC, but I should have qualified it for clarity.
In a small business, consultancy, or more bootstrapped world you're completely right. Theres plenty of technology businesses that I've worked with where the CTO is one of the co-owners or the engineer who's been there the longest and they'll come on site to fix equipment or get on the phone with me to walkthrough unexpected behavior/etc.
In a small business, consultancy, or more bootstrapped world you're completely right. Theres plenty of technology businesses that I've worked with where the CTO is one of the co-owners or the engineer who's been there the longest and they'll come on site to fix equipment or get on the phone with me to walkthrough unexpected behavior/etc.