9 Best Articles in 2022
medium.com
What I wish I knew when I became CTO
medium.com
6 min read · From 2018 · Over the last four years I’ve been the CTO at SketchDeck and I wanted to reflect on the experience and what I wish I’d known at the start.
Reader View · Shared by 101, including Thomas Kaul, Mark Kaigwa, 瑞拿頭, Marco Unternaehrer, Clemens, Mark Needham, ross, Simone Corsi 💻🚀, Stefan Weber, Dominik Grolimund
First Round
The Best Advice We Overheard at First Round's CTO Unconference
First Round
~13 min read · From 2017 · Our second annual CTO Unconference brought together 160+ of the sharpest technical leaders we know. Here's a rundown of some of the best tactics we heard them share.
Reader View · Shared by 59, including Dominik Grolimund, Pat Kua, Philip Stehlik, Thomas Spreng, Brad Engel, Marco Unternaehrer, Leslie D, Thompson Marzagão, Sara Tian, k
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The SaaS CTO Security Checklist
cto-security-checklist.sqreen.io
~19 min read · From 2016 · Protect your applications from cybersecurity threats by following the SaaS CTO Security Checklist introduces.
Reader View · Shared by 101, including Harsha Mv, Marcus Kuhn, Thomas Spreng, Xavier Bertschy, Thomas Kaul, , Stephen C Sanders, Mark Kaigwa, Bryan Onel, Matthias Lampe, Vincent Liu, Jochen Burkhard, Mathias Brenner, Alligator.io 🐊
juokaz.com
Becoming a CTO // Juozas Kaziukėnas
juokaz.com
4 min read · From 2016 · It's easy to accidentally become a CTO by getting hired by a small company with no other developers, like you would see in most startups. But while the title might say "Chief Technology Officer," it is probably just a fancy acronym for an "overworked developer." This is then about how to realize what the position needs and how to get there.
Reader View · Shared by 78, including ₵BZ, Florian Hanke 🍎, Mark Kaigwa, Leslie D, Pat Kua, Veronika Lampion, Agustin, Lukas Westermann, Jurgens du Toit, Donneker, Nils Hitze, Baadier Sydow 🇿🇦, PotHix, Matthias Lampe
cto-security-checklist.sqreen.io
The SaaS CTO Security Checklist
cto-security-checklist.sqreen.io
~19 min read · From 2017 · Protect your applications from cybersecurity threats by following the SaaS CTO Security Checklist.
Reader View · Shared by 22, including Bryan Onel, Philip Stehlik, Thomas Power, Andreas Brenner
First Round
This Product Prioritization System Nabbed Pandora 70 Million Monthly Users with Just 40 Engineers
First Round
10 min read · From 2015 · Pandora CTO Tom Conrad explains how Pandora picks the most important features to build with its limited engineering power.
Reader View · Shared by 215, including Patric Fornasier, Howard Getson, Colin Jones, Michael Duergner, Chikara Shimizu/清水力, Thomas Power, Brad Engel, Tim Herbig
Mark Suster
Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering?
Mark Suster
6 min read · From 2016 · I recently did a post for startups on understanding sales people.
Reader View · Shared by 54, including Alberto, Jakub Albert Ferenc, Zain Fathoni, Clemens, Stefan Weber, Patric Fornasier, Jim Mayes, Andreas Brenner, Philip Stehlik, Mark Kaigwa, Thomas Power, Matthias Lampe
blog.gregbrockman.com
#define CTO
blog.gregbrockman.com
10 min read · From 2015 · I joined Stripe as an engineer in 2010. I began by working on the backend infrastructure: designing the server architecture, creating our credit card vault, and producing internal abstractions to make people’s jobs easier. I loved writing code,... | Greg Brockman | Svbtle
Reader View · Shared by 53, including Leonid Bugaev, Helmi, Pat Kua, Andreas Brenner, Mark Needham, Stefan Weber
medium.com
Learnings from 80 startup CTOs — Medium
medium.com
~20 min read · From 2015 · I participated in a startup CTO meet-up with the top Spanish startup CTOs and several European CTOs. I have summarized the notes I took.
Reader View · Shared by 50, including Dominik Grolimund, Andreas Brenner, Malik El Bay 🕊, Mwirabua Tim, Startupxplore, Liza Sperling, Marco Unternaehrer, Sandro Strebel
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Forbes
Radically Human: How AI-Powered And New Technologies Are Shaping Our Future
Forbes
4 min read · Apr 27th · The latest book co-authored by Accenture CTO and futurist Paul Daugherty, Radically Human, examines the intersection between humanity and machines in the era of digital transformation and the…
Reader View · Shared by 22, including Bernard Marr, Dr. Marcell Vollmer 🇺🇦 #StaySafe & Carpe Diem, Howard Getson, Dr. Sally Eaves #TechForGood #PrivacySummit, Terence Mills, Nige Willson, Nicolas Babin #AmazonPartner
WIRED
Joe Biden, and the Country, Could Really Use a CTO
WIRED
8 min read · Apr 22nd · Plus: Obama’s head techy, the world’s social media addiction, and Russia’s unwelcomed escalation.
Shared by 14, including Florian Jungnikl-Gossy ⛱, Backchannel
TechCrunch
Better.com CTO steps down, agrees to voluntary separation in wake of mass layoffs
TechCrunch
1 min read · Apr 8th · Diane Yu, CTO of Better.com, has agreed to a voluntary separation plan that the digital mortgage lender offered earlier this week, according to a report by Bloomberg and as seen on Blind, an anonymous…
Reader View · Shared by 5
Protocol
Cameo lays off close to 90, including senior executives
Protocol
20+ min read · May 4th · CPO, CTO and VP of Marketing are among the people laid off.
Reader View · Shared by 13, including Charles Arthur, Biz Carson
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kuchin/awesome-cto
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2021-02-26 · A curated and opinionated list of resources for Chief Technology Officers, with the emphasis on startups - kuchin/awesome-cto
Shared by 44, including Sachin Rekhi, Prithvi Raju M, Shreyas Doshi, M. Serdar Kuzuloğlu
First Round
I’m Sorry, But Those Are Vanity Metrics
First Round
~15 min read · From 2017 · After three decades of leading data teams at companies like LiveOps, Netscape and ReadyForce, Looker founder and CTO Lloyd Tabb's biggest learning isn’t what you would expect — or want to hear: You’re measuring the wrong metrics. We all are.
Reader View · Shared by 164, including Luis Roig, Mark Kaigwa, Thomas Power, Mathew Ingram, Dominik Grolimund, Startupxplore, Mike Ivars, hiten.eth, Christian P. Stobbe, Howard Getson, Yann “shalf@mastodon.social” Heurtaux 不停, Kevan Lee 👋, Nettra Pan 🦇🔊, Weiting Chen, Fabrizio Bianchi, Steed Monteiro, Brad Engel, Ilia Markov
First Round
This Matrix Helps Growing Teams Make Great Decisions
First Round
~12 min read · From 2017 · As CTO of Flatiron Health, Gil Shklarski has had to keep a rapidly-growing technical team aligned through many tough decisions. This is the framework that works every time.
Reader View · Shared by 159, including Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, David Pires, Dominik Grolimund, Nir Eyal, Oliver Raduner, Adrian🇨🇭, janfsauer, Jacob Jarnvall, Tim Herbig, Nitin Gupta, Daniel Bentes, ErmanTaylan.eth, Liv 😷, Sunil Neurgaonkar, Bernhard Huessy, Andreia Costa 🇵🇹, Tyler Rooney, Ⓓarío Macchi, Kevan Lee 👋, Thomas Power
engineering.gusto.com
How my role as CTO has changed as we've grown to 100 engineers
engineering.gusto.com
6 min read · From 2018 · The co-founder and CTO shares how his role changed as the engineering team scaled from 0 to 100 engineers.
Reader View · Shared by 34, including Chris Schultz ✌️
First Round
The Company-Building Cornerstones Every Founder Needs to Focus On — Advice from HubSpot
First Round
20+ min read · Feb 8th · Dharmesh Shah has spent the last 15 years as co-founder & CTO of HubSpot. He pinpoints the inflection points and key decisions that other founders face in the early days, from choosing a co-founder to…
lethain.com
Your first 90 days as CTO or VP Engineering.
lethain.com
~15 min read · From 2020 · Whenever I transition to a new opportunity, I think about how to “start well.” How can I ramp up as effectively as possible? How do I balance the urge to “show value” immediately with making the right…
Reader View · Shared by 35, including Kenneth Kalmer, Zain Fathoni, Bob Gourley
Reforge
You Cannot Be Data-Driven Without Experimentation
Reforge
5 min read · 2020-07-09 · Matt Greenberg CTO at Reforge Former VP of Engineering at Credit Karma
Reader View · Shared by 115
Data Science Central
Does Your Hypothesis Development Canvas Tell a Story?
Data Science Central
2 min read · From 2019 · As Kevin Lynch, CTO of The Information Lab in Dublin, was describing how his organization uses the Hypothesis Development Canvas, it occurred to me that Kevin…
Reader View · Shared by 114, including Dean of Big Data 🎓 #DOBD, Dr. Craig Brown, Kirk Borne, Oscar MacDonald, Jonathan Kogan, Gabriele
medium.com
Five years, building a culture, and handing it off.
medium.com
4 min read · From 2015 · After 5 years, the time has come. This is my last week as Etsy’s CTO.
Reader View · Shared by 32, including Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Steed Monteiro, Yann “shalf@mastodon.social” Heurtaux 不停, Andreas Brenner
