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There are no titles at a small startup. You are all founders. And being a CTO of a small startup is absolutely nothing like being a CTO of a midsize company.

You should focus on what your current at hand skills are and how to get the company to succeed.

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Yes I know, but we're planning to grow fast, hire more and more engineers, so I need to prepare for that somehow, learn to be more than best.

It really sounds like what you really are is the VP/Engineering (don't call yourself a VP until you have 40+ people in the company).

People on HN, many of whom have been conditioned to aspire to a "CTO" role, won't agree with me when I say this, but VP/Eng is probably the better of the two roles. Unlike CTO, the head of engineering actually controls stuff and routinely makes key decisions in the company.

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