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Chief Technology Officer

also referred to as: cto · ctos

6 statements across 6 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Dec 24, 2017 by Badis Khalfallah · across every show →

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Dec 24, 2017 negative
Disclosure
LeadGuru CTO resigned over equity and compensation disputes
“Yeah, it was both. And we didn't agree on, on, you know, how to make it happen.”
Badis Khalfallah Dec 24, 2017 ▶ 16:06 883 SaaS: What To Do When Your Lead Developer Quits
May 6, 2019 neutral
Disclosure
Wuebben: Content Launch developers declined equity offers while CTO holds equity
“So the CTO does, our CTO I've offered equity to the developers. They weren't real excited about that. I mean, they wanted, it's a personal choice. Most of the people on our team do have equity but the developers don't.”
John Wuebben May 6, 2019 ▶ 15:17 1381 When should you shut your agency down to go all in on SaaS?
May 16, 2019
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Some CTOs literally store company passwords in Word documents and CSVs
“Yeah. Yeah. It's crazy. That's insane. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And sometimes it's even like Word documents stored on on their hard drive or stuff like this.”
Benjamin Prigent May 16, 2019 ▶ 11:18 1391 Can they Become B2B Version of LastPass?
May 13, 2020
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Rippling targeted founders and the C-suite before expanding to HR titles
“We were targeting at that point in the beginning, it was like founders you know, CEO, CTO. It is mostly that. And then as we sort of continue to grow and scale and expand you know, we went into the HR job title, the idea admins and so on.”
Prasanna Sankar May 13, 2020 ▶ 18:06 1754 Parker Conrad Gave Rippling CTO 40%, Kept 60%, 2,000 Customers "$36m ARR Not Far Off"
Apr 2, 2021 neutral
Insight
Startups Can Hire a CTO, But Cannot Survive Without a CEO
“So I strongly believe company cannot live without CEO. That's for sure. Most companies cannot live without head of sales and CMOS. But probably you can leave without, you know, a CTO. You can hire a CTO.”
Vitaly Davydov Apr 2, 2021 ▶ 11:25 Mobile Paywall Testing Company Breaks 200 Customers, $500k Raised
Jul 19, 2022
Insight
Kwan argues CTOs are product partners but CEOs build the business
“While I have no doubt that there are some CTOs out there that can also build a business, but I am a firm believer that a CTO is a great product technology partner, but the business is built by the CEO.”
Melissa Kwan Jul 19, 2022 ▶ 12:17 She's a 1 person bootstrapped founder with $500k in ARR, here's how she did it
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