The CTO Journey at a Small Startup
C suite member still doing coding 80% of the time is extremely unlikely in my experience. You may still be able to steal away some time on nights and weekends to be able to stay sharp but day to day you're much more concerned with worrying about the future of the business, interacting with customers, and often acting as a service provider to other parts of the management team (vetting out partnerships/acquisitions etc) from a technology perspective the same way in house counsel and CFOs do for legal and financial matters.What this seems to be calling CTO is more akin to a most senior engineer/fellow/hacker. I've seen it called Chief Engineer before. That's the person the the CTO should be able to hold their own in a conversation with but being that person would seem be unlikely for an exec team member as the business grows.*Titles are more to less meaningless unless there is internal conflict or you're interacting with someone external, ignore that bit and think in terms of roles