Then from the internal market economics PoV, here's how it looks:
Engineering: costs (salaries + infra) are covered by revenue (services rendered to exec team).
Executive team: costs (execs salaries, expenses to pay engineers and sales for their services, accumulating interest to be returned to investors if any) are NOT covered by revenue (which comes from customers).
I find this decomposition incredibly neat and enabling solving the right problems.
Engineering: costs (salaries + infra) are covered by revenue (services rendered to exec team). Executive team: costs (execs salaries, expenses to pay engineers and sales for their services, accumulating interest to be returned to investors if any) are NOT covered by revenue (which comes from customers).
I find this decomposition incredibly neat and enabling solving the right problems.