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Startup CTO or Developer

TechEmpower - Product Management

What does it mean to be a CTO for a startup? Should a startup CTO spend their time programming? Exploring new technologies? The role of a CTO varies as the company matures. But hiring a lead developer, or even a VP of Engineering, can create a gap between the founders and the developers. What does the role demand?

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The GitLab way: Kindness, transparency, and short toes | David DeSanto (CPO)

Lenny Rachitsky

Brought to you by: • Orb —The flexible billing engine for modern pricing • Eppo —Run reliable, impactful experiments • Paragon —Ship every SaaS integration your customers want — David DeSanto is the chief product officer of GitLab, which is the largest remote-only company in the world.

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Billion dollar failures, and billion dollar success | Tom Conrad (Quibi, Pandora, Pets.com, Snap, Zero)

Lenny Rachitsky

He began his career in engineering at Apple, where he helped build key features that remain in iOS today. Tom was previously the VP of Product at Snap and the chief technology officer of Pandora.

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Here’s what our Business of Software Conference USA 2018 Speakers are Reading

Business of Software Conference

Next up: Moesta’s Jobs-to-be-Done Handbook and Christensen’s Competing Against Luck. Mikey Trafton, Alamo Drafthouse, CTO. non-engineering VPs, CEOs, CxOs) and their natural thinking/decision-making biases. Good to Great by Jim Collins. Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters by Deckle Edge.