Founders Cannot Scale Strategy While Serving as Both CEO and CTO
Alex Armitage · The Fog That Lifted: What Being Unhirable Really Means · Jun 29, 2021 · at 7:48
Alex Armitage, founder of Nectarine Credit, discusses the operational limits of wearing multiple executive hats once a company reaches traction.
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“I'm trying to build strategy and direction, and you can't do that. You can't be a CEO and a CTO at the same time, and I mean, you certainly could in the very early days, but we're beyond that, and we're getting traction, and we're moving forward, and so you have to delegate”
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