The CTO is dead, long live the CTO
summary
Argues that the old CTO who hides in a windowless office and optimizes efficiency is dead and replaced by a business-facing leader who prioritizes speed to market, continuous experimentation and customer feedback; recommends organizing teams for stability vs risk-taking, building lots of small experiments by combining ideas from marketing and customer service, and hiring paint-drip specialists rather than experts who know the whole stack; debunks the old “14 programs” myth and says success is measured in validated experiments and faster learning.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:17The CTO used to be
- 1:11Technology product revolution
- 4:03A paint drip person
- 5:43Speed to market
- 7:10Understand the business
- 8:38Collaborate
- 9:49Customer centric
- 11:34More and more industries
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