CTO quits startup over CEO's AI approach: too slow on customers, too fast on shipping
rickasaurus · x · 2026-08-14
Gergely Orosz shares a startup story where the CTO resigned despite holding 2% common shares. The CTO said the nontechnical CEO was both too slow and too fast with AI: too slow in not understanding customer needs, leading to confusion and churn; too fast in prioritizing AI features with no commercial potential over core system reliability.
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