Looking for a CTO? 6 qualities a great startup CTO should have
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- čas přidán 19. 01. 2021
- Does your startup need a CTO?
The most successful businesses have one thing in common: excellent leadership. For tech startups, in particular, a technology visionary who is also a great manager is essential for a growing company.
Learn the role of a CTO at different stages of a startup and the qualities that a great Chief Technology Officer (CTO) should have to be successful in your startup.
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According to this video, I am ready to be a CTO. Will come back in 4-5 years, when I, hopefully, am one
We are a health care Technology Start up from india we have MVP and early traction. Looking for good technical person
Great vids so far.
What about vids on folks who want to grow into becoming the type of CTOs they look up to?
Say like a video series on how to build yourself up as a mid-level tech career person who hopes to become a CTO something
That's exactly why I'm not advertising myself as a would-be CTO even though i'm coming from a technical background. The list of requirements regarding skill and whatnot is potentially infinite and the results are very measurable (vs negotiable or evident later in the future) - this by itself is a challenge, but then it's the reason why we'd join a startup. However, meeting those expectations and filling this role of an 8-armed tech wizard 24/7 likely won't help the early CTO to grow into the role of a later CTO. Getting replaced for "objective reasons" seems far too likely. :/
Consequently, this perspective should be part of the conversation when negotiating a CTO position which will partly be paid in equity. The counterpart will have to build a lot of trust and discuss his/her position on not so happy outcomes as well.
Thank you so much
Awesome!
I think the video has content but it focuses primarily on web based startups. My business builds hardware technology so instead of a developer I am certain I need an engineer
great video
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Came here for data, left with confirmation bias on my own path to startup cto.
Brilliant!
Thank you!
Good points
Thank you Patrick!
What happens to that early developer who built the first version? Especially if they built it for equity only? I’m about to agree to build a product for a startup for equity but I am worried about being just kicked out. I’ve worked as the first technical hire of a startup but once the product was complete they found cheap devs oversees and fired all tech in the us which by that time had grown to 5 members.
Good knowledge
You don't need a CTO to build an MVP and get your first customers. A good CEO can sell anything. Not all good CTOs can.