the "CEO" of any YC startup early enough to need to outsource product development isn't promising anything despite their words.
Well... Yes. Yes, they are.
There is no probation period when you start a business and become a legal officer of a company. If you want to be a CEO, you'd better act like it from 9am on day 1, because chances are you have the power to commit your business to any obligation it can legally undertake. Once you do, your business will be on the hook for any such commitments you make, forever. And depending on where you are, you might get away with failing to honour a commitment if you made an honest mistake and the business failed, but if you were just blatantly negligent about your responsibility to run the company properly then your corporate legal shield might not be as solid as you'd like either, leaving you on the hook personally as well.
Well... Yes. Yes, they are.
There is no probation period when you start a business and become a legal officer of a company. If you want to be a CEO, you'd better act like it from 9am on day 1, because chances are you have the power to commit your business to any obligation it can legally undertake. Once you do, your business will be on the hook for any such commitments you make, forever. And depending on where you are, you might get away with failing to honour a commitment if you made an honest mistake and the business failed, but if you were just blatantly negligent about your responsibility to run the company properly then your corporate legal shield might not be as solid as you'd like either, leaving you on the hook personally as well.