Is your CFO doing your bookkeeping?

Let’s hope not. That would be a waste of their skills, and certainly their time and effort could be better used elsewhere.

Then why are you asking your CTO to write your code? Manage your network? Upgrade and secure your servers? These are all tasks a talented technical founder provides to a Startup. But once a Startup has funding and is generating revenue, these extra tasks are offloaded to subject matter experts.

A talented CTO can do all kinds of technical tasks, but a smart CTO knows when to delegate them.