I've been co-founder/head of tech for the past 2 years at my startup. Honestly, I've always wanted to be more CEO/CPO than CTO but never having that experience, my background made it easier to be the technical side of a founding team than not. My first year was focused on ship/fail/iterate and so I focused on the tech side of things but the second year I started to grow the eng. team and peeled myself away. While I enjoy mentoring and coaching engineers, and enabling the product to do cool stuff, my passion for purely tech is not there. I started to play the product manager role while also doing some marketing/PR/twitter because if I'm being honest, learning all this other stuff is fun! As we are looking at our next stage of growth, I feel like I need to be a bit more focused on a specific role to avoid getting spread too thin (and not providing enough value) but I'm dreading putting my head down the purely CTO path. Have other technical founders had this feeling before or made some sort of hybrid role? How have folks managed staying technical while playing other roles? Should I just switch to product?