Chief Technology Officer

also referred to as: cto

6 statements across 5 episodes · 3 bullish · 2 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Sep 7, 2023 by Ryan Glasgow · across every show →

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Sep 7, 2023 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Many companies will hire AI architects to sit alongside the CTO
“Going forward many companies will bring on AI architects that might even be at the same level or report directly to a CTO to think about what are the models that we're going to use and what are the boundaries of AI and how can we build reproducible AI and thin…”
Ryan Glasgow Sep 7, 2023 ▶ 1:01:53 A guide to building product in a post-LLM world | Ryan Glasgow and Kevin Mandich from Sprig
Oct 26, 2023 positive
Insight
Enterprise CTOs avoid CMOs but will gladly meet with Chief Strategy Officers
“Which, what CTO wants to talk to the CMO of DevSecOps? Like my platform, but they definitely want to talk to somebody that is working on understanding their needs. That was a former customer and that wants to come back with a team and understand, are we strate…”
Ashley Kramer Oct 26, 2023 ▶ 1:05:26 The business of growing and monetizing an open source product | Ashley Kramer (GitLab CMO/CSO)
Nov 16, 2023 neutral
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Larson: CTO struggles usually stem from peer friction or poor shipping velocity
“Typically when a CEO of a 500 person company feels their CTO is, is struggling, they're probably running into like one of two different things. Either the individual CTO is like causing friction with other people on the team. For some reason, like their peers,…”
Will Larson Nov 16, 2023 ▶ 51:25 A masterclass in engineering leadership from Carta, Stripe, and Uber | Will Larson (CTO at Carta)
Nov 16, 2023 negative
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CTOs and chief architects lack context for centralized technical decisions
“Chief architects and CTOs are pretty inefficient in terms of Actually getting enough context in their heads to make a good decision on any given, given point.”
Will Larson Nov 16, 2023 ▶ 22:41 A masterclass in engineering leadership from Carta, Stripe, and Uber | Will Larson (CTO at Carta)
Jan 4, 2024 positive
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Atlassian had a much shorter route to CIOs than Asana did
“The edge that they had was eventually the route to the CIO, the CTO to then just, all right, let's just Deploy this across the whole organization. That path is very short. Whereas for many PLG companies like us on the distance was really long.”
Oliver Jay Jan 4, 2024 ▶ 1:03:10 The new PLG playbook | Arming the next generation of product-led companies | Oliver Jay (Asana)
Mar 19, 2026 negative
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Epling: Deep-tech companies need separate CTOs rather than unified EPD leadership
“If I had a company that required super, super deep technical expertise, I think that would be the case where I would be much more skeptical of having a single Person that has it all. And I would want a separate technology officer versus not.”
Jeremy Epling Mar 19, 2026 ▶ 30:42 The product wisdom every CPO should ignore | Jeremy Epling (CPO, Vanta)
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