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What is a CTO?

Austin Startup

As a CTO, I can definitely say without a doubt that few people understand what a CTO does. Even when someone is aware of what a CTO does, they often have limited context due to the wide variety of CTO roles. They adopt, measure, and manage key product performance metrics. They will review and negotiate all related contracts.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

We lack a consistent and clear definition of the job. So I initially gravitated to the CTO title, and not VP of Engineering. It became harder and harder to separate how the software is built from how the software is structured. If not, whos going to insist we switch to free and open source software?

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Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

As a last disclaimer, please consult the definition of the word hacker if youre not familiar with the controversies surrounding that term.) When I want to know about some concurrency issues between services in his cluster, he doesnt blink an eye when I suggest we get the source code and take a look. All is not lost, though.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

The right sort of person is so passionate about coding, they can’t be stopped from doing it. But it will definitely raise questions during the phone screen, for reasons that are best explained by simile: Programming with.NET is like cooking in a McDonalds kitchen. But attitude. You either have it, or you don’t.

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