As part of a two person team, there are no CEO/COO/CTO/CFO roles...you're just two people building something.
It's a joke to give yourself a management title when there's nothing to manage.
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It's not a management title, it's a role.
Being a 2 people company or a 20k+, you still have to manage financial, technical, operation aspects of your business.
Same role name, different implications depending on scale.
It’s a role (CTO), but not one that exist on a small team.
If you are a small handful of people starting off, you don’t need a CFO, you need a bookkeeper and an accountant. You don’t need a CTO, you need a tech lead.
All that rest is a mix of confusion and puffery.
The puffery is in the inflation of the supposed prestige of such titles (both in puny and large settings).
There's a level of strategy, planning, influence, and execution that is completely missing at the small level - it's not even a matter of scale.
Ignoring that when giving yourself a C-level title is what I take issue with.
You're saying exactly the same thing I'm saying.
Same role name, different situational implications.
Being a mayor of a small village or of Paris or New-York, you're still the mayor.
Seeing CEO on the business cards of single person companies always makes me chuckle.
Depending on what form your business takes and where you file, you may have to designate who the CEO or President is. Of course, you needn't always put that on a business card.