It has come to a point where I've pretty much had it with those serial-entrepreneur types who pride themselves on having started an x-number of start-ups.
If you're incapable of, or simply completely uninterested in, running a business, don't start one. It doesn't make you a courageous entrepreneur, it makes you and adrenaline junkie who gets their kicks at the expense of others.
None of this is limited to code or tech in general. I've seen it in all kinds of areas. You may love doing X, but once you start a company doing X, running that company becomes is your job, not doing X.
If you're a founder/CEO and you've hired others to code, for you coding is a now hobby you can pick up in whatever spare time you have (probably none). To do it inside your own company when you should be taking care of your company and the people in it is selfish and self-indulgent.
One common problem I see with tech founders/CEOs is they tend to get into their comfort zone i.e. coding, every time they face a business challenge.
This is especially true for first time entrepreneurs, for whom running a business is a new thing.
This was just an attempt to give a different point of view for technologists who are interested in building a business.
It's not that i didn't see it coming miles away, but it was still too late.
However, I realized, that I am not able to focus on management - which is also important.
I still code at least 4 days a week (including weekends).
However, doing it every day, I don't think it is mandatory.
i genuinely thought that the article should do justice by putting the same effort as jeresig post. Yeah OP argument that "CEO job is not only coding" is not wrong but i expect OP will argue that "code is not the onpy thing developer like jeresig do" based on the headline.
Thanks for your input, I have updated the post to state the same.
I am using blogger. Should switch soon. Here is the same post on Medium: https://medium.com/p/362c7c6176b8
Can anybody come up with a good ending? :)
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