The CTO Role: Responsibilities, Risks, and Screw-ups
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A panel of senior engineering leaders from Jooble, Concert.ua, Preply, and Lalafo discuss the CTO role, covering core responsibilities, hardest aspects of the job, risks and adventurous decisions, notable failures, career paths to CTO, and balancing technical vs. business priorities. The discussion blends technical and management topics and draws on the panelists’ multi-year experience as CTOs, CEOs, and engineering leaders.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00What key responsibilities of a CTO do you fulfill in your company?
- 4:49What is the hardest part of the CTO role?
- 8:56Risks and adventurism
- 14:07Failures
- 26:24How to grow into a CTO?
- 34:49Balancing technical and business sides
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