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The Night We Turned Off the Servers
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There’s an unspoken rule in startups: the system stays up. Downtime is failure. Every alert, every spike, every unexpected error — the instinct is always the same: fix it fast,…
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The Day I Deleted a Feature We Loved
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In a startup, building feels like progress. New features, smarter systems, cleaner dashboards — every addition feels like you’re moving forward. As a CTO, a big part of my job…
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Stopped Writing Code
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The day I became a CTO wasn’t the day I got the title.It was the day I realized I hadn’t opened my code editor in a week—and the company was…
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The Night We Almost Took the Product Offline
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Most people imagine a CTO spending their days planning architecture diagrams and talking about “scalability.” Sometimes that’s true. But the real job shows up when everything starts breaking at once.…
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The Loneliest Tab Open: Notes from a Startup CTO
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There’s a browser tab I always have open. It’s not the product dashboard.Not Slack.Not even GitHub. It’s the runway spreadsheet. Being a Startup CTO isn’t just about architecture diagrams and…
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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…
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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