Category: Startup
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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…
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When the Server Crashed During Our Investor Demo
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You know those startup success stories that sound perfectly planned? Yeah — mine isn’t one of them. I’m the CTO of a fast-growing Silicon Valley startup, and the story I…
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Debugging People, Not Code
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When people hear “CTO,” they imagine someone buried in code, architecting systems or choosing the next tech stack. But at a startup, that’s maybe 20% of the job. The real…
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Startups Break You Before They Make You
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You won’t find me in a hoodie or skateboarding my way to work. Neither do I have a standing desk with four monitors and a neon sign that says “#buildinpublic.”…
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Confessions of an Anonymous Silicon Valley CTO
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I’m currently jotting this down on a Sunday morning from my apartment in SoMa, coffee in hand, code pushed but not yet reviewed. I won’t tell you my name or…