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Re:Five Years as a Startup CTO: How, Why, and Was It Worth It? by justapassenger on Saturday October 04, 2025 @02:52PM (#45475681)
CTOs just arbitrate between dev teams and product teams.
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Re:Five Years as a Startup CTO: How, Why, and Was It Worth It? by mooreds on Saturday October 04, 2025 @02:56PM (#45475714)
CPAs just arbitrage between cash flows and legal requirements.
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Re:Five Years as a Startup CTO: How, Why, and Was It Worth It? by mikert89 on Saturday October 04, 2025 @02:56PM (#45475716)
Nah, CTO is usually deep in the code base, hiring, firing, coding, pulling long hours to ship features, etc
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Re:Five Years as a Startup CTO: How, Why, and Was It Worth It? by cactusplant7374 on Sunday October 12, 2025 @08:01PM (#45563258)
CTO's shouldn't be coding. They are a manager.
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