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.
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.