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Building While Everything Is Still Fragile
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Being a startup CTO means living in a constant state of almost. Almost ready. Almost stable. Almost certain. From the outside, leadership looks decisive and confident. From the inside, it…
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The Quiet Decisions No One Applauds
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Being a startup CTO isn’t about wearing a hoodie or talking about “disruption.” It’s about making a hundred invisible decisions every week and knowing that if you do your job…
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What It Really Feels Like to Build a Company While Building Yourself
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People think being a CTO means writing elegant code in a quiet room, making big architectural decisions, and occasionally stepping in for a technical crisis. The truth? My life feels…
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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…
A CTO behind the curtain
Jane Smith
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the
airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
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