The CTO Podcast
By Insights & Strategies for Chief Technology Officers Navigating the C-Suite while Balancing Technical Strategy, Team Management, & Innovation
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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, founder of 7CTOs and author of CTO Excellence in 100 Days: Becoming the leader your company deserves.
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The Software Factory: Why Document-Driven Development Is Reshaping How CTOs Build
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Dec 19, 2025 |
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LIQUID – How CTOs Harness Complexity to Unlock Flow
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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Steven Zgaljic, Jahnel Group, CTO: Harnessing AI for Health Insights
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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Zayna Rose, Image Strategist & Communications Consultant: Elevating Your Image as a Tech Leader
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Jan 08, 2025 |
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Lena Skliarova-Mordvinova, Good Face Project CTO and Co-Founder: Revolutionizing Personal Care with AI and Resilience in Challenging Times
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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Dr. Aadeel Akhtar, PSYONIC's Visionary: Transforming Lives Through Advanced Bionic Prosthetics and Entrepreneurial Innovation
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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Decoding AI: Expert Panel Insights for CTOs
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Oct 08, 2024 |
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Ryan Kari, CTO of MagCanica: Revolutionizing Motorsports with Torque Sensors and the Art of CTO Leadership
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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Kathy Keating, Fractional CTO | Interim CTO | Executive Coach | CTO Levels™: Mastering Growth; Operational Excellence and Leadership Insights
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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Aliza Carpio, Director of Product Management Data Platform at JLL Technologies: The Code of Collaboration and Navigating Open Source
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Jul 09, 2024 |
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Maria Flynn, Founder and CEO AmbioLogix: Make Opportunity Happen
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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Dave Adsit, VP of Engineering SamCart: Coding Roots to C-Suite Insights
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Jun 18, 2024 |
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Ksenia Palke, Head of AI at Airspace: AI in Time-Critical Shipments
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Jun 11, 2024 |
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Devastate the Competition via Robust Design with Adam Bahret
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May 28, 2024 |
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Going First: Leading with Purpose in an Overthinking World with Nell Derick Debevoise
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May 22, 2024 |
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Joel Beasley, Modern CTO: Mastering the Art of Podcasting
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May 14, 2024 |
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Alex Balazs, CTO Intuit: Generative AI, Vulnerability and Leadership
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May 07, 2024 |
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Exploring RF Communication, Encryption, and AI with Dell Kronewitter
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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Insights into AI and Beyond with Mourad Zerroug
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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From Code to Cattle: Parallels Between Technology and Farming with Jennifer Cwagenberg
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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The Realities of Fundraising with Sean Nam
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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Navigating the Rollercoaster: From Rapid Growth to Unwinding with Tracie Hlavka
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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From Pragmatism to Pivot Tables: Navigating Leadership, Philosophy, and Data Mastery with Matt Van Itallie
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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CTO Leadership: Navigating Startup Realities and Inspiring Teams with Krijn Van der Raadt
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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Leadership, Technology, and the “It Depends” Philosophy: Insights from Kevin Goldsmith
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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Just use Flutter - Stephan Schmidt // Amazing CTO
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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End of Stack Overflow -- Stephan Schmidt // Amazing CTO
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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Greenest Programming Languages -- Stephan Schmidt // Amazing CTO
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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The future of CTOs with AI -- Stephan Schmidt // Amazing CTO
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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Vision, Strategy An Alignment -- Stephan Schmidt // Amazing CTO
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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AI replaces programmers - Threads killing Twitter
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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Building Organizational Trust in AI -- Ksenia Palke // Airspace
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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How to Apply AI at Your Company -- Ksenia Palke // Airspace
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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Solo Projects // Reddit // Imaginary Problems // Estimation // GPT-4 Pitch Decks
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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How CTO's Should Rely on Automation Infrastructure -- Rob Hirschfeld // RackN
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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The Role of DevOps in Building Startups -- Rob Hirschfeld // RackN
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Jun 20, 2023 |
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Industry-Specific Applications of AI -- Sanjay Sehgal // MSys
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Jun 16, 2023 |
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Ethics & Human-AI Partnerships -- Sanjay Sehgal // MSys
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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Focusing on Revenue Goals with Cross Functional Teams -- Ole Dallerup // Dreamdata.io
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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Becoming a Tech Leader of a Fast-Growing Startup -- Ole Dallerup // Dreamdata.io
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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The Performance Boosting Power of Feedback -- Darva Satcher // GitLab Inc.
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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Unlocking the Power of the Skip Level Meetings -- Darva Satcher // GitLab Inc.
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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Work on Your Reputation Inside and Outside Your Company! -- Kevin Goldsmith // DistroKid
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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Grooming Engineering Managers -- Dalia Havens // Replicated
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May 29, 2023 |
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Architecture to Manage Data Costs & Complexity -- Adrian Estala // Starburst
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May 26, 2023 |
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The Evolution of the CDO Role -- Adrian Estala // Starburst
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May 25, 2023 |
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Coaching Your Engineers vs. Giving Them Feedback -- Etienne de Bruin // 7CTOs
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May 22, 2023 |
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The Power of Stillness for the CTO -- Brittany Cotton // 7CTOs
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May 18, 2023 |
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How to Stop Juggling & Start Shipping Product -- Surya Oruganti // Argonaut
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May 16, 2023 |
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No DevOps? No Problem -- Surya Oruganti // Argonaut
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May 15, 2023 |
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Struggles in Buy-vs-Build Land -- Blake Messer // Cratejoy
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May 12, 2023 |
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How to use ChatGPT to write code -- Blake Messer // Cratejoy
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May 11, 2023 |
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Contribution Analysis for Your Dev Team -- Hezheng Yin // Merico
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May 10, 2023 |
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Managing International Engineering Teams -- Hezheng Yin // Merico
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May 09, 2023 |
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Impact of AI on a Digital Company's Carbon Footprint -- Richard Whitehead // Moogsoft Inc.
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May 05, 2023 |
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Application of AI Techniques to IT Ops -- Richard Whitehead // Moogsoft Inc.
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May 04, 2023 |
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Optimize Development with Automation -- Calvin Hendryx-Parker // Six Feet Up
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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Build Resilient Systems -- Calvin Hendryx-Parker // Six Feet Up
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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Solidifying Software Development Foundations -- Calvin Hendryx-Parker // Six Feet Up
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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IOT For The Hot Tub Part 2 -- Jonathan LaCour // Mission
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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Designing IOT For The Hot Tub -- Jonathan LaCour // Mission
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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Invest In Serverless -- Jonathan LaCour // Mission
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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What Is Kubernetes? -- Jonathan LaCour // Mission
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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CTO'ing Mission Through Pandemic Lockdowns -- Jonathan LaCour // Mission
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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On Degeneracy -- Aaron Longwell // Serverless
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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Building the Legal Software System in Afghanistan -- Aaron Longwell // Serverless
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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When Simple Concepts Unravel In The C-Suite -- Aaron Longwell // Serverless
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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Doing Work As A Means Of Discovery -- Aaron Longwell // Serverless
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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Left Brain Right Brain -- Aaron Longwell // Serverless
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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Tips on nurturing your network -- Sri Shivananda // PayPal
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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Building influence within your organization -- Sri Shivananda // PayPal
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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Why fast communication is key -- Sri Shivananda // PayPal
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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Publishing 'CTO Excellence in 100 Days' book -- Benjamin Shapiro // I Hear Everything
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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Why CTOs care about podcasts -- Benjamin Shapiro // I Hear Everything
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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Etienne on the ABCs of Getting Back on the Same Page
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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Investing in People: A Look into Fleetio's Software Development Strategy with Jorge Valdivia
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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How to Replace Yourself and Buy Time with Dan Martell
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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[Replay] Build Your Own CTO Peer Group So That You Can Succeed with Brittany Cotton
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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Myths of CTO Leadership with Mark Hunter
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Jan 11, 2023 |
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[Replay] Doing Curiosity vs. Being Curiosity
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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[Replay] Curiosity and the Unknown
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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[Replay] When Curiosity Leads to Questions, But Not All Questions Represent Curiosity
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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[Replay] Curiosity vs. Being Curious
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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The Role of A CTO is Complicated
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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[Replay] Aaron Longwell in the CTO Studio
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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[Replay] How to Find The Best Employees in Tech Today, with Casey Kleindienst
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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Sleep Tightly Through Your DevOps Woes with Phil Borlin and Ken Cone
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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[Replay] The Importance of Psychology as a CTO with Dr. Dan Stoneman
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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Trunk-Based Development And Feature Flags With EJ & TJ
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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Change is Evolutionary with Dave Mangot
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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Getting Involved with Open Source Communities with Jesse White
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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Feature Flags with Split.io CTO Patricio Echague
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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The CTO & Diversity, Equity and Inclusion with Kathy Keating, Aaron Pina and Erik Enge
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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A Conversation With PayPal CTO, Sri Shivananda
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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Extracting Value From Your Network with Erin Fusaro, Wayne Haber and Brent Thumlert
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Aug 31, 2022 |
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How to Make the Horizon Model Better with Visibility Planning with Brant Cooper
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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What Evolutionary Biology Can Tell Us About Software Development - Part 2
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Aug 17, 2022 |
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What Evolutionary Biology Can Tell Us About Software Development - Part 1
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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Work on your reputation inside and outside your company! with Kevin Goldsmith and Claudius Mbemba
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Jul 25, 2022 |
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Grooming Engineering Managers with Dalia Havens, VPE at Replicated
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Jul 01, 2022 |
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Shopify's Technical Advisor To The CEO, Duncan Davidson
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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How To Do Skip Level Meetings with Nathan Broslawsky and Scott Graves
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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A CTO Implements DEI Early On: A Discussion With Joan Pepin
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May 23, 2022 |
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What metrics do you use? A Discussion With Dave Mangot and Erik Enge
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May 17, 2022 |
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Be The Best Damn Fractional CTO You Can Be
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May 09, 2022 |
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Integrating New Hires Into Your Engineering Culture with Erin Fusaro and Tracie Hlavka
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May 02, 2022 |
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Designing a Great Hiring Process to Attract Engineers
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Apr 25, 2022 |
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Deconstructing The Hiring Problem with Eric Lackore and David Lormor
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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4 Things The Security Team Wants From Their CTO with Naomi Buckwalter
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Apr 11, 2022 |
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QA with Lu Saenz and Pat Cullen
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Apr 04, 2022 |
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Coaching Your Engineers vs. Giving Them Feedback with Etienne de Bruin
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Mar 28, 2022 |
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Psychological Safety For Your Engineering Team with Kimeshan Naidoo, CTO Unibuddy
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Mar 21, 2022 |
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Help The C-Suite Understand Your CTO Role with Nishant Mathew and Jim Catts
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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Emotional Literacy Tools For The CTO, with Patty Leeper facilitating a 7CTOs Forum
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Mar 09, 2022 |
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CTO Strategies For Engineering Bonuses And Profit Sharing, with Agustin Lebron and 7CTOs
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Mar 07, 2022 |
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How The CTO Goes About Meeting Their Team's Needs, with Scott Graves and Chris Peterson
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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CTOs Building Web3 Startups Using Blockchains and NFTs
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Feb 21, 2022 |
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Are Your Needs Being Met In The C-Suite?
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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CTO Upgrades To OKRs by using GEMs and Sentinels
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Feb 14, 2022 |
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Engineering Staffing Strategies
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Feb 08, 2022 |
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The Power of Stillness for the CTO
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Jan 31, 2022 |
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New Ideas About The Future of Work
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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Engineering Compensation Challenges
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Jan 25, 2022 |
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What Does Smart Contract Code For A DAO Look Like?
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Jan 21, 2022 |
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CTO Relationships with Project Managers
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Jan 18, 2022 |
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CTO Panel On DAO and Wallet Volatility
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Jan 13, 2022 |
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CTO Introduction To DAO
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Jan 11, 2022 |
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CTO And Data Ownership in Web3
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Jan 06, 2022 |
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Build Your Own CTO Peer Group So That You Can Succeed
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Jan 03, 2022 |
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CTO Discussion On Web3 Complexity
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Dec 31, 2021 |
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CTO Under Fire Playbook
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Dec 28, 2021 |
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CTO Timing For web3
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Dec 23, 2021 |
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CTO Antidote to Decision Fatigue
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Dec 20, 2021 |
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CTO Introduction to Web3
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Dec 17, 2021 |
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How to Deal with Employees that Don’t Show Willingness to Participate in Relationships
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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Defining the CTOs Role in Relationships and Company Culture
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Nov 16, 2021 |
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Doing Curiosity vs. Being Curiosity
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Nov 11, 2021 |
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Curiosity and the Unknown
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Oct 27, 2021 |
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When Curiosity Leads to Questions, But Not All Questions Represent Curiosity
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Oct 18, 2021 |
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Curiosity Vs. Being Curious
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Oct 13, 2021 |
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Creating A Agile And Innovative Infrastructure
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Oct 07, 2021 |
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Evidence As A Way To Deal With Ideas And Uncertainty
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Sep 23, 2021 |
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Communication Flow for Handling Inventions
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Sep 20, 2021 |
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Time Horizons And How We Address Needs
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Sep 09, 2021 |
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The Role of the CTO has shifted beyond just Technology
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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The two most important risk factors in customer and employment agreements
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Aug 06, 2021 |
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When, Why & How to start the Compliance Process
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Jul 27, 2021 |
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3rd Party & Bad Actor Risk Assessment
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Jul 15, 2021 |
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Navigating Compliance Risk as CTO from a startup idea in a garage to $1B+ unicorn
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Jul 01, 2021 |
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Protecting Your IP in Customer Agreements Part 2
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Jun 23, 2021 |
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Cyber Insurance, Compliance and Cyber Security
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Jun 16, 2021 |
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Cyber Insurance, Compliance and Cyber Security
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Jun 11, 2021 |
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Intellectual Property
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Jun 04, 2021 |
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Gitlab Transparency
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May 27, 2021 |
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Must Have and Nice To Have Patents
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May 21, 2021 |
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Intellectual Property and Patenting Process
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May 11, 2021 |
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On Degeneracy
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May 04, 2021 |
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Building the Legal Software System in Afghanistan
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Apr 27, 2021 |
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When Simple Concepts Unravel In The C-Suite
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Apr 20, 2021 |
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Doing Work As A Means Of Discovery
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Apr 15, 2021 |
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Left Brain Right Brain
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Apr 13, 2021 |
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IOT For The Hot Tub Part 2
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Apr 08, 2021 |
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Designing IOT For The Hot Tub
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Apr 06, 2021 |
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Invest In Serverless
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Apr 01, 2021 |
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What Is Kubernetes?
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Mar 31, 2021 |
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What is it that CTOs need to know about Infrastructure trends?
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Mar 25, 2021 |
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CTO'ing Mission through Pandemic Lockdowns
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Mar 23, 2021 |
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CI/CD Pipelines Have Become Complicated
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Mar 18, 2021 |
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Ep.113 IOT, Micro Services And Data Visualization
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Mar 16, 2021 |
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Ep.112 A Dragonfly Leads To a Conversation About Ecosystems
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Mar 11, 2021 |
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Ep.111 How To Build Your Own Backyard Pond
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Mar 09, 2021 |
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Ep.110 Why We Ran Out Of Toilet paper During Covid
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Mar 05, 2021 |
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Ep.109 Managing Expectations Part 2
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Mar 02, 2021 |
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Ep.108 Managing Expectations Part 1
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Feb 25, 2021 |
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Ep.107 Truth As A Management Style
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Feb 23, 2021 |
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Ep.106 It's Hard To Be The Naysayer As CTO
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Feb 18, 2021 |
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Ep.105 Time As A Metric
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Feb 16, 2021 |
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Ep.104 Systems Theory: Why Projects Don't Deliver
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Feb 11, 2021 |
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Ep.103 Surviving The Start Up Graveyard By Building A Nimble Company
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Feb 09, 2021 |
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Ep.102 Being CTO Of A Market Leader
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Feb 05, 2021 |
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Ep.101 Wrestling with the Changing Rules of The App Stores as CTO
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Feb 02, 2021 |
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Ep.100 The Conflicted CTO
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Jan 28, 2021 |
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Ep.99 Technology Playbook Part 4
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Jan 25, 2021 |
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Ep.98 Tech Playbook Part 3
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Jan 20, 2021 |
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Ep.97 Tech Playbook Part 2
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Jan 12, 2021 |
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Ep.96 Tech Playbook #1
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Jan 07, 2021 |
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Ep.95 VP of Engineering
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Dec 28, 2020 |
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Ep.94 Emotional Intelligence
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Dec 22, 2020 |
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Ep.93 Sprint Reviews
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Dec 15, 2020 |
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Ep.92 Consulting To CTO
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Dec 09, 2020 |
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Ep.91 The Immigrants Complex View of Self
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Dec 01, 2020 |
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Ep.90 The 7 Deadly Sins Of Infrastructure As Code Part 3
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Nov 24, 2020 |
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Ep.89 The 7 Deadly Sins Of Infrastructure As Code
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Nov 17, 2020 |
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Ep.88 The Seven Deadly Sins Of Infrastructure As Code
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Nov 12, 2020 |
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Ep.87 Agilestacks
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Nov 03, 2020 |
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Ep.86 Black Boxes
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Oct 30, 2020 |
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Ep.85 Security Penetration
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Oct 20, 2020 |
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Ep.84 Network Layers
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Oct 15, 2020 |
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Ep.83 The Blockchain Bandit
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Oct 13, 2020 |
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Ep.82 The Imposter Syndrome
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Oct 08, 2020 |
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Ep.81 Why Is Your Backlighting So Awesome
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Oct 06, 2020 |
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Ep.80 Requirements of Writing A Book
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Sep 29, 2020 |
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Ep.79 The Opportunity Relationship Square
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Sep 22, 2020 |
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Ep.78 How to choose what Boards you want to be a part of
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Sep 15, 2020 |
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Ep.77 When Hiring a Product Manager is better than hiring a CTO
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Sep 08, 2020 |
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Ep.76 The Basics Of Trading
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Sep 01, 2020 |
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Ep.75 Machine Learning
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Aug 25, 2020 |
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Ep.74 The Fermi Paradox
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Aug 18, 2020 |
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Ep.73 GPT-3 to Open AI
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Aug 11, 2020 |
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Ep. 72 The Case For Infrastructure As Code Part 3
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Aug 04, 2020 |
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Ep.71 The Case For Infrastructure As Code Part 2
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Jul 28, 2020 |
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Ep. 70 The Case For Infrastructure As Code Part 1
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Jul 21, 2020 |
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Ep. 69 Short Term Crisis Management or a Longer Term Thing
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Mar 20, 2020 |
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Ep. 68 The CTO's Challenge Of Picking The Right Tools For The Job
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Feb 21, 2020 |
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The Gig Economy & Product Roadmaps with Vidya Dinamani, Eric Lawler and Kamel Boulos
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Sep 10, 2019 |
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The Key to Company Culture, with Vidya Dinamani, Benji Koltai and Jerome Bonhomme
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Jul 31, 2019 |
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Growing and Scaling Your Tech Company with Michael Singer and friends
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Jul 10, 2019 |
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The Ins and Outs of the Car Finance Industry, with Robert Swisher, Brant Cooper and Sonia Steinway
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Jun 26, 2019 |
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Creating Culture and Productivity with Your Team, with Robert Swisher, Brant Cooper and Michael Young
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Jun 11, 2019 |
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The Present and Future of Data Science, with Christoper Keown, Robert Swisher and Alex Balazs
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May 21, 2019 |
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PR and Positive Publicity in Tech with Brian Jones, Alan Leard and Alex Balazs
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May 14, 2019 |
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Two CTOs, one Chief Architect & Dr. Debbie Chen from Hydrostasis
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May 07, 2019 |
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Community Building with CTOs, with Dr. Tony Karrer
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Apr 30, 2019 |
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Innovating as a CTO in Online Advertising with Oded Cohen
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Apr 23, 2019 |
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Disrupting The Healthcare Market with CTO Unmesh Srivastava
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Apr 16, 2019 |
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From Engineer and Developer to CTO with Jesus Lizama
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Apr 09, 2019 |
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The Formula For Evaluating Start-Ups with Sergey Sundukovskiy
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Apr 03, 2019 |
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Why It’s Okay Not to Finish with Evan Phoenix
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Mar 27, 2019 |
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The World of Cloud Services with Jonathan LaCour
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Mar 20, 2019 |
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How CTOs Can Best Utilize Recruiters with Kimberly Owen
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Mar 13, 2019 |
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The Psychology of People in Tech, with Joanie Connell
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Mar 06, 2019 |
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Optimism and Longevity as a CTO in a Healthcare Tech, with Larry Heminger
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Feb 27, 2019 |
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Hybrid CTO of Hardware and Software with Ahn Nguyen
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Feb 19, 2019 |
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Being CTO in the Health Insurance Industry with Alan Leard
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Feb 13, 2019 |