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The CTO Podcast explores the worlds of Chief Technical officers as they manage the trials, tribulations, and triumphs of technologists in the C-suite.
Hosted by Etienne de Bruin, this podcast brings you insights and perspectives from experienced technology leaders as they share expertise and wisdom on a wide range of topics, including technical strategy, project management, talent management, infrastructure and architecture, security and compliance, customer experience, agile methodologies, collaboration and communication, innovation, and data-driven decision making.
Whether you're a CTO yourself, an aspiring technology leader, or simply interested in learning more about the world of tech, The CTO Podcast has something for you. Our guests share their real-world experiences and practical advice, as well as their thoughts on emerging trends and technologies in AI, crypto, and Web3.
If you're interested in staying ahead of the curve in the world of technology leadership, tune in to The CTO Podcast and discover what it takes to succeed as a CTO in today's fast-paced and ever-changing business landscape.
Host: Etienne de Bruin // Founder of 7CTOs
7CTOS is a community of experienced technology leaders who share insights, build relationships, and learn from one another through events, workshops, and a range of resources. 7CTOs provides a platform for CTOs to connect with peers, access valuable resources, and stay up-to-date on the latest trends and best practices in technology leadership.
Producer: Benjamin Shapiro – Founder & CEO of I Hear Everything.
I Hear Everything is a content production company that offers a full suite of podcast services to launch and distributed podcasts across various channels, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube. I Hear Everything's done-for-you service converts their customers thought leadership into an audience that loves their brand.
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Navigating the Rollercoaster: From Rapid Growth to Unwinding with Tracie Hlavka
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Mar 26, 2024 |
From Pragmatism to Pivot Tables: Navigating Leadership, Philosophy, and Data Mastery with Matt Van Itallie
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Mar 19, 2024 |
CTO Leadership: Navigating Startup Realities and Inspiring Teams with Krijn Van der Raadt
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Mar 12, 2024 |
Leadership, Technology, and the “It Depends” Philosophy: Insights from Kevin Goldsmith
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Mar 05, 2024 |
Just use Flutter - Stephan Schmidt // Amazing CTO
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Sep 06, 2023 |
End of Stack Overflow -- Stephan Schmidt // Amazing CTO
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Jul 31, 2023 |
Greenest Programming Languages -- Stephan Schmidt // Amazing CTO
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Jul 25, 2023 |
The future of CTOs with AI -- Stephan Schmidt // Amazing CTO
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Jul 13, 2023 |
Vision, Strategy An Alignment -- Stephan Schmidt // Amazing CTO
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Jul 12, 2023 |
AI replaces programmers - Threads killing Twitter
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Jul 11, 2023 |
Building Organizational Trust in AI -- Ksenia Palke // Airspace
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Jul 04, 2023 |
How to Apply AI at Your Company -- Ksenia Palke // Airspace
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Jul 03, 2023 |
Solo Projects // Reddit // Imaginary Problems // Estimation // GPT-4 Pitch Decks
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Jun 23, 2023 |
How CTO's Should Rely on Automation Infrastructure -- Rob Hirschfeld // RackN
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Jun 21, 2023 |
The Role of DevOps in Building Startups -- Rob Hirschfeld // RackN
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Jun 20, 2023 |
Industry-Specific Applications of AI -- Sanjay Sehgal // MSys
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Jun 16, 2023 |
Ethics & Human-AI Partnerships -- Sanjay Sehgal // MSys
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Jun 15, 2023 |
Focusing on Revenue Goals with Cross Functional Teams -- Ole Dallerup // Dreamdata.io
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Jun 09, 2023 |
Becoming a Tech Leader of a Fast-Growing Startup -- Ole Dallerup // Dreamdata.io
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Jun 08, 2023 |
The Performance Boosting Power of Feedback -- Darva Satcher // GitLab Inc.
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Jun 06, 2023 |
Unlocking the Power of the Skip Level Meetings -- Darva Satcher // GitLab Inc.
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Jun 05, 2023 |
Work on Your Reputation Inside and Outside Your Company! -- Kevin Goldsmith // DistroKid
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Jun 01, 2023 |
Grooming Engineering Managers -- Dalia Havens // Replicated
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May 29, 2023 |
Architecture to Manage Data Costs & Complexity -- Adrian Estala // Starburst
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May 26, 2023 |
The Evolution of the CDO Role -- Adrian Estala // Starburst
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May 25, 2023 |
Coaching Your Engineers vs. Giving Them Feedback -- Etienne de Bruin // 7CTOs
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May 22, 2023 |
The Power of Stillness for the CTO -- Brittany Cotton // 7CTOs
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May 18, 2023 |
How to Stop Juggling & Start Shipping Product -- Surya Oruganti // Argonaut
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May 16, 2023 |
No DevOps? No Problem -- Surya Oruganti // Argonaut
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May 15, 2023 |
Struggles in Buy-vs-Build Land -- Blake Messer // Cratejoy
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May 12, 2023 |
How to use ChatGPT to write code -- Blake Messer // Cratejoy
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May 11, 2023 |
Contribution Analysis for Your Dev Team -- Hezheng Yin // Merico
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May 10, 2023 |
Managing International Engineering Teams -- Hezheng Yin // Merico
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May 09, 2023 |
Impact of AI on a Digital Company's Carbon Footprint -- Richard Whitehead // Moogsoft Inc.
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May 05, 2023 |
Application of AI Techniques to IT Ops -- Richard Whitehead // Moogsoft Inc.
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May 04, 2023 |
Optimize Development with Automation -- Calvin Hendryx-Parker // Six Feet Up
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Apr 28, 2023 |
Build Resilient Systems -- Calvin Hendryx-Parker // Six Feet Up
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Apr 27, 2023 |
Solidifying Software Development Foundations -- Calvin Hendryx-Parker // Six Feet Up
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Apr 26, 2023 |
IOT For The Hot Tub Part 2 -- Jonathan LaCour // Mission
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Apr 21, 2023 |
Designing IOT For The Hot Tub -- Jonathan LaCour // Mission
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Apr 20, 2023 |
Invest In Serverless -- Jonathan LaCour // Mission
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Apr 19, 2023 |
What Is Kubernetes? -- Jonathan LaCour // Mission
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Apr 18, 2023 |
CTO'ing Mission Through Pandemic Lockdowns -- Jonathan LaCour // Mission
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Apr 17, 2023 |
On Degeneracy -- Aaron Longwell // Serverless
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Apr 14, 2023 |
Building the Legal Software System in Afghanistan -- Aaron Longwell // Serverless
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Apr 13, 2023 |
When Simple Concepts Unravel In The C-Suite -- Aaron Longwell // Serverless
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Apr 12, 2023 |
Doing Work As A Means Of Discovery -- Aaron Longwell // Serverless
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Apr 11, 2023 |
Left Brain Right Brain -- Aaron Longwell // Serverless
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Apr 10, 2023 |
Tips on nurturing your network -- Sri Shivananda // PayPal
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Apr 06, 2023 |
Building influence within your organization -- Sri Shivananda // PayPal
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Apr 05, 2023 |
Why fast communication is key -- Sri Shivananda // PayPal
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Apr 04, 2023 |
Publishing 'CTO Excellence in 100 Days' book -- Benjamin Shapiro // I Hear Everything
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Mar 23, 2023 |
Why CTOs care about podcasts -- Benjamin Shapiro // I Hear Everything
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Mar 22, 2023 |
Etienne on the ABCs of Getting Back on the Same Page
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Feb 08, 2023 |
Investing in People: A Look into Fleetio's Software Development Strategy with Jorge Valdivia
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Feb 01, 2023 |
How to Replace Yourself and Buy Time with Dan Martell
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Jan 25, 2023 |
[Replay] Build Your Own CTO Peer Group So That You Can Succeed with Brittany Cotton
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Jan 18, 2023 |
Myths of CTO Leadership with Mark Hunter
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Jan 11, 2023 |
[Replay] Doing Curiosity vs. Being Curiosity
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Dec 21, 2022 |
[Replay] Curiosity and the Unknown
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Dec 14, 2022 |
[Replay] When Curiosity Leads to Questions, But Not All Questions Represent Curiosity
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Dec 07, 2022 |
[Replay] Curiosity vs. Being Curious
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Nov 30, 2022 |
The Role of A CTO is Complicated
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Nov 23, 2022 |
[Replay] Aaron Longwell in the CTO Studio
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Nov 16, 2022 |
[Replay] How to Find The Best Employees in Tech Today, with Casey Kleindienst
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Nov 09, 2022 |
Sleep Tightly Through Your DevOps Woes with Phil Borlin and Ken Cone
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Nov 02, 2022 |
[Replay] The Importance of Psychology as a CTO with Dr. Dan Stoneman
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Oct 26, 2022 |
Trunk-Based Development And Feature Flags With EJ & TJ
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Oct 19, 2022 |
Change is Evolutionary with Dave Mangot
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Oct 05, 2022 |
Getting Involved with Open Source Communities with Jesse White
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Sep 28, 2022 |
Feature Flags with Split.io CTO Patricio Echague
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Sep 21, 2022 |
The CTO & Diversity, Equity and Inclusion with Kathy Keating, Aaron Pina and Erik Enge
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Sep 14, 2022 |
A Conversation With PayPal CTO, Sri Shivananda
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Sep 07, 2022 |
Extracting Value From Your Network with Erin Fusaro, Wayne Haber and Brent Thumlert
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Aug 31, 2022 |
How to Make the Horizon Model Better with Visibility Planning with Brant Cooper
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Aug 24, 2022 |
What Evolutionary Biology Can Tell Us About Software Development - Part 2
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Aug 17, 2022 |
What Evolutionary Biology Can Tell Us About Software Development - Part 1
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Aug 10, 2022 |
Work on your reputation inside and outside your company! with Kevin Goldsmith and Claudius Mbemba
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Jul 25, 2022 |
Grooming Engineering Managers with Dalia Havens, VPE at Replicated
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Jul 01, 2022 |
Shopify's Technical Advisor To The CEO, Duncan Davidson
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Jun 20, 2022 |
How To Do Skip Level Meetings with Nathan Broslawsky and Scott Graves
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Jun 09, 2022 |
A CTO Implements DEI Early On: A Discussion With Joan Pepin
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May 23, 2022 |
What metrics do you use? A Discussion With Dave Mangot and Erik Enge
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May 17, 2022 |
Be The Best Damn Fractional CTO You Can Be
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May 09, 2022 |
Integrating New Hires Into Your Engineering Culture with Erin Fusaro and Tracie Hlavka
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May 02, 2022 |
Designing a Great Hiring Process to Attract Engineers
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Apr 25, 2022 |
Deconstructing The Hiring Problem with Eric Lackore and David Lormor
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Apr 18, 2022 |
4 Things The Security Team Wants From Their CTO with Naomi Buckwalter
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Apr 11, 2022 |
QA with Lu Saenz and Pat Cullen
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Apr 04, 2022 |
Coaching Your Engineers vs. Giving Them Feedback with Etienne de Bruin
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Mar 28, 2022 |
Psychological Safety For Your Engineering Team with Kimeshan Naidoo, CTO Unibuddy
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Mar 21, 2022 |
Help The C-Suite Understand Your CTO Role with Nishant Mathew and Jim Catts
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Mar 14, 2022 |
Emotional Literacy Tools For The CTO, with Patty Leeper facilitating a 7CTOs Forum
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Mar 09, 2022 |
CTO Strategies For Engineering Bonuses And Profit Sharing, with Agustin Lebron and 7CTOs
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Mar 07, 2022 |
How The CTO Goes About Meeting Their Team's Needs, with Scott Graves and Chris Peterson
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Mar 01, 2022 |
CTOs Building Web3 Startups Using Blockchains and NFTs
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Feb 21, 2022 |
Are Your Needs Being Met In The C-Suite?
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Feb 18, 2022 |
CTO Upgrades To OKRs by using GEMs and Sentinels
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Feb 14, 2022 |
Engineering Staffing Strategies
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Feb 08, 2022 |
The Power of Stillness for the CTO
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Jan 31, 2022 |
New Ideas About The Future of Work
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Jan 27, 2022 |
Engineering Compensation Challenges
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Jan 25, 2022 |
What Does Smart Contract Code For A DAO Look Like?
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Jan 21, 2022 |
CTO Relationships with Project Managers
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Jan 18, 2022 |
CTO Panel On DAO and Wallet Volatility
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Jan 13, 2022 |
CTO Introduction To DAO
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Jan 11, 2022 |
CTO And Data Ownership in Web3
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Jan 06, 2022 |
Build Your Own CTO Peer Group So That You Can Succeed
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Jan 03, 2022 |
CTO Discussion On Web3 Complexity
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Dec 31, 2021 |
CTO Under Fire Playbook
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Dec 28, 2021 |
CTO Timing For web3
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Dec 23, 2021 |
CTO Antidote to Decision Fatigue
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Dec 20, 2021 |
CTO Introduction to Web3
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Dec 17, 2021 |
How to Deal with Employees that Don’t Show Willingness to Participate in Relationships
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Nov 19, 2021 |
Defining the CTOs Role in Relationships and Company Culture
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Nov 16, 2021 |
Doing Curiosity vs. Being Curiosity
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Nov 11, 2021 |
Curiosity and the Unknown
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Oct 27, 2021 |
When Curiosity Leads to Questions, But Not All Questions Represent Curiosity
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Oct 18, 2021 |
Curiosity Vs. Being Curious
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Oct 13, 2021 |
Creating A Agile And Innovative Infrastructure
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Oct 07, 2021 |
Evidence As A Way To Deal With Ideas And Uncertainty
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Sep 23, 2021 |
Communication Flow for Handling Inventions
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Sep 20, 2021 |
Time Horizons And How We Address Needs
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Sep 09, 2021 |
The Role of the CTO has shifted beyond just Technology
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Aug 31, 2021 |
The two most important risk factors in customer and employment agreements
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Aug 06, 2021 |
When, Why & How to start the Compliance Process
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Jul 27, 2021 |
3rd Party & Bad Actor Risk Assessment
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Jul 15, 2021 |
Navigating Compliance Risk as CTO from a startup idea in a garage to $1B+ unicorn
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Jul 01, 2021 |
Protecting Your IP in Customer Agreements Part 2
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Jun 23, 2021 |
Cyber Insurance, Compliance and Cyber Security
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Jun 16, 2021 |
Cyber Insurance, Compliance and Cyber Security
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Jun 11, 2021 |
Intellectual Property
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Jun 04, 2021 |
Gitlab Transparency
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May 27, 2021 |
Must Have and Nice To Have Patents
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May 21, 2021 |
Intellectual Property and Patenting Process
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May 11, 2021 |
On Degeneracy
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May 04, 2021 |
Building the Legal Software System in Afghanistan
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Apr 27, 2021 |
When Simple Concepts Unravel In The C-Suite
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Apr 20, 2021 |
Doing Work As A Means Of Discovery
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Apr 15, 2021 |
Left Brain Right Brain
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Apr 13, 2021 |
IOT For The Hot Tub Part 2
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Apr 08, 2021 |
Designing IOT For The Hot Tub
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Apr 06, 2021 |
Invest In Serverless
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Apr 01, 2021 |
What Is Kubernetes?
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Mar 31, 2021 |
What is it that CTOs need to know about Infrastructure trends?
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Mar 25, 2021 |
CTO'ing Mission through Pandemic Lockdowns
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Mar 23, 2021 |
CI/CD Pipelines Have Become Complicated
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Mar 18, 2021 |
Ep.113 IOT, Micro Services And Data Visualization
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Mar 16, 2021 |
Ep.112 A Dragonfly Leads To a Conversation About Ecosystems
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Mar 11, 2021 |
Ep.111 How To Build Your Own Backyard Pond
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Mar 09, 2021 |
Ep.110 Why We Ran Out Of Toilet paper During Covid
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Mar 05, 2021 |
Ep.109 Managing Expectations Part 2
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Mar 02, 2021 |
Ep.108 Managing Expectations Part 1
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Feb 25, 2021 |
Ep.107 Truth As A Management Style
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Feb 23, 2021 |
Ep.106 It's Hard To Be The Naysayer As CTO
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Feb 18, 2021 |
Ep.105 Time As A Metric
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Feb 16, 2021 |
Ep.104 Systems Theory: Why Projects Don't Deliver
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Feb 11, 2021 |
Ep.103 Surviving The Start Up Graveyard By Building A Nimble Company
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Feb 09, 2021 |
Ep.102 Being CTO Of A Market Leader
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Feb 05, 2021 |
Ep.101 Wrestling with the Changing Rules of The App Stores as CTO
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Feb 02, 2021 |
Ep.100 The Conflicted CTO
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Jan 28, 2021 |
Ep.99 Technology Playbook Part 4
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Jan 25, 2021 |
Ep.98 Tech Playbook Part 3
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Jan 20, 2021 |
Ep.97 Tech Playbook Part 2
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Jan 12, 2021 |
Ep.96 Tech Playbook #1
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Jan 07, 2021 |
Ep.95 VP of Engineering
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Dec 28, 2020 |
Ep.94 Emotional Intelligence
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Dec 22, 2020 |
Ep.93 Sprint Reviews
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Dec 15, 2020 |
Ep.92 Consulting To CTO
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Dec 09, 2020 |
Ep.91 The Immigrants Complex View of Self
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Dec 01, 2020 |
Ep.90 The 7 Deadly Sins Of Infrastructure As Code Part 3
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Nov 24, 2020 |
Ep.89 The 7 Deadly Sins Of Infrastructure As Code
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Nov 17, 2020 |
Ep.88 The Seven Deadly Sins Of Infrastructure As Code
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Nov 12, 2020 |
Ep.87 Agilestacks
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Nov 03, 2020 |
Ep.86 Black Boxes
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Oct 30, 2020 |
Ep.85 Security Penetration
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Oct 20, 2020 |
Ep.84 Network Layers
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Oct 15, 2020 |
Ep.83 The Blockchain Bandit
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Oct 13, 2020 |
Ep.82 The Imposter Syndrome
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Oct 08, 2020 |
Ep.81 Why Is Your Backlighting So Awesome
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Oct 06, 2020 |
Ep.80 Requirements of Writing A Book
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Sep 29, 2020 |
Ep.79 The Opportunity Relationship Square
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Sep 22, 2020 |
Ep.78 How to choose what Boards you want to be a part of
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Sep 15, 2020 |
Ep.77 When Hiring a Product Manager is better than hiring a CTO
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Sep 08, 2020 |
Ep.76 The Basics Of Trading
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Sep 01, 2020 |
Ep.75 Machine Learning
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Aug 25, 2020 |
Ep.74 The Fermi Paradox
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Aug 18, 2020 |
Ep.73 GPT-3 to Open AI
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Aug 11, 2020 |
Ep. 72 The Case For Infrastructure As Code Part 3
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Aug 04, 2020 |
Ep.71 The Case For Infrastructure As Code Part 2
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Jul 28, 2020 |
Ep. 70 The Case For Infrastructure As Code Part 1
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Jul 21, 2020 |
Ep. 69 Short Term Crisis Management or a Longer Term Thing
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Mar 20, 2020 |
Ep. 68 The CTO's Challenge Of Picking The Right Tools For The Job
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Feb 21, 2020 |
The Gig Economy & Product Roadmaps with Vidya Dinamani, Eric Lawler and Kamel Boulos
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Sep 10, 2019 |
The Key to Company Culture, with Vidya Dinamani, Benji Koltai and Jerome Bonhomme
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Jul 31, 2019 |
Growing and Scaling Your Tech Company with Michael Singer and friends
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Jul 10, 2019 |
The Ins and Outs of the Car Finance Industry, with Robert Swisher, Brant Cooper and Sonia Steinway
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Jun 26, 2019 |
Creating Culture and Productivity with Your Team, with Robert Swisher, Brant Cooper and Michael Young
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Jun 11, 2019 |
The Present and Future of Data Science, with Christoper Keown, Robert Swisher and Alex Balazs
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May 21, 2019 |
PR and Positive Publicity in Tech with Brian Jones, Alan Leard and Alex Balazs
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May 14, 2019 |
Two CTOs, one Chief Architect & Dr. Debbie Chen from Hydrostasis
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May 07, 2019 |
Community Building with CTOs, with Dr. Tony Karrer
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Apr 30, 2019 |
Innovating as a CTO in Online Advertising with Oded Cohen
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Apr 23, 2019 |
Disrupting The Healthcare Market with CTO Unmesh Srivastava
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Apr 16, 2019 |
From Engineer and Developer to CTO with Jesus Lizama
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Apr 09, 2019 |
The Formula For Evaluating Start-Ups with Sergey Sundukovskiy
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Apr 03, 2019 |
Why It’s Okay Not to Finish with Evan Phoenix
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Mar 27, 2019 |
The World of Cloud Services with Jonathan LaCour
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Mar 20, 2019 |
How CTOs Can Best Utilize Recruiters with Kimberly Owen
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Mar 13, 2019 |
The Psychology of People in Tech, with Joanie Connell
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Mar 06, 2019 |
Optimism and Longevity as a CTO in a Healthcare Tech, with Larry Heminger
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Feb 27, 2019 |
Hybrid CTO of Hardware and Software with Ahn Nguyen
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Feb 19, 2019 |
Being CTO in the Health Insurance Industry with Alan Leard
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Feb 13, 2019 |