Hey everyone,
I’ve recently been approached with a CTO position for a startup
I’m currently a student at School 42 in Paris, (renown in France for its really hard software engineering curriculum and also probably the only reason this startup even contacted me) , so I can only commit to a part-time role and not a full time role.
The team is currently three people: a CEO, a co-founder, and a sales manager
Today, the co-founder told me that as the CTO, I’d be in charge of creating the first MVP and automating processes as much as possible. They want the V1 rolling by January.
I’m wondering, like… what am I supposed to do as a CTO in a startup of 3 people ?
What exactly would the role of a CTO entail in this context?
I’m trying to gauge the workload that would come with a part-time CTO position, especially since I need to balance it with my studies since my school is literally for psychopaths
You would be defining the architecture and implementing it. That said, I think it is basically impossible for this to turn out good. Imagine putting someone who has never seen combat, on the front lines, by himself… He’s going to make costly mistakes that a startup can’t afford to bear.
They are just looking for cheap labor and they don’t know what they need. It’s actually laughable they want a junior level dev to pull off an MVP by January - beyond the most rudimentary app.