In my past I was the technical co-founder for a successful startup and eventual exit. I had a background in marketing automation and analytics.<p>At different points I acted as CTO, CEO and COO and ended up at a CTO but with a cutout that I ran the "renevue" team.<p>Except for glad handing VCs in the early stages the first thing that should be automated away is most roles in the C-Suite.<p>You'll still need a flesh and blood figurehead for external meetings as well.<p>Many software engineers seem to be extremely blind to practical concerns around positioning, market fit, pricing, etc. and may bring certain idealogical biases and "purities" into their decision making that sabotage their success, just put yourself in the hands of AI and trust it.<p>The simple fact is most C-suite teams don't perform better than the macro environment they exist in, so getting "decent" AI decisions in place and then energetically executing you'll beat most teams, and in early stage startups.<p>If some people say we can replace the bottom 20% of devs right now, we can probably safely replace the bottom 40% of c-suite roles.