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What Being a Startup CTO Really Means (Beyond the Title)
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When people hear “CTO,” they imagine someone deep in code, wearing headphones, architecting systems that scale to millions. That’s part of it. But in a startup, being a CTO is…
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I Measure Time in Technical Debt
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Most people think a CTO spends the day making big architectural decisions and approving shiny roadmaps. That happens sometimes. More often, I measure time in technical debt — what we…
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Building While Everything Is Still Fragile
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Being a startup CTO means living in a constant state of almost. Almost ready. Almost stable. Almost certain. From the outside, leadership looks decisive and confident. From the inside, it…
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The Quiet Decisions No One Applauds
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Being a startup CTO isn’t about wearing a hoodie or talking about “disruption.” It’s about making a hundred invisible decisions every week and knowing that if you do your job…
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What It Really Feels Like to Build a Company While Building Yourself
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People think being a CTO means writing elegant code in a quiet room, making big architectural decisions, and occasionally stepping in for a technical crisis. The truth? My life feels…
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The Balancing Act of a Startup CTO
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As a CTO in a growing startup, I’ve learned that my job is less about coding brilliance and more about balance — between speed and stability, innovation and pragmatism, ambition…
A CTO behind the curtain
Jane Smith
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the
airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
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