How to have a happy CTO & CEO marriage

Published: September 5, 2007, 9:56 am

In a web-based startup company the most important relationship is often between the CEO and CTO. VC Brad Feld touches on this issue in a pair of posts today (The Constipation of Scale and Lighten Up / Tighten Up). As he correctly points out the relationship frequently hits the skids when faced with the inevitable drama of: scale vs. features.The scale vs. features story goes something like this: a) building services that "scale" (i.e. can grow to support a large number of people) takes much longer than building services that "don't scale." This typically has to do with issues around how a site is actually coded. For example if you had blog software that showed 10 blog posts per page and each of those blog posts showed the number of comments on it you could code the software to do a database lookup for "number of comments" ten times or you could "cache" that information in a table on the database server so it was "one lookup." If you have 10 people come to your website each day it

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