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Technocratic Podcast
by For technology execs by technology execs.
Are you a technology exec? Join us for practical insights and wisdom from a 4x CTO in Private Equity, Enterprise and Startups. We have great guests that are absolutely crushing it and want to share their experiences, playbooks, best practices and key insights with other top leaders. newsletter.technocratic.io
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You 3x'd engineering...but how's your roadmap?
Steve Taplin “sells” engineers for a living.But lately, he’s telling most of his clients the same thing… “You don’t need more of them.” Taplin runs a software engineering firm. His clients call him when something is broken — seven years into a roadmap, nothing shipping… Much of the time, it’s a…
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July 4th Listen: Escape the Chaos of Product, Engineering & AI
In this episode of Technocratic, I speak with Tracy Edwards, a highly experienced product and technology executive, about the messy reality of aligning product, engineering, and business outcomes in the AI era. The conversation starts with a problem almost every technology organization knows too...
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Why Faster Engineering Hasn’t Changed Your Roadmap
Chanille Juneau oversees product, engineering, security, DevOps, and QA for Accumulus, a platform that exchanges confidential data between the world’s largest drug makers and regulators in 75+ countries. She’s never written a line of code. It doesn’t matter. The CPTO Role and AI Reward the Same...
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The Skills That Separate Average Product Leaders From Exceptional Ones
Gabi Bufrem has been on every side of product leadership — IC, CPO, and now the person other product leaders call when the job stops making sense. The Shift Nobody Teaches You There’s a version of this conversation that’s comfortable — the one where we talk about leadership development in broad...
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Grant Elliott on Why Product Management Is Its Own Worst Enemy — And What to Do About It
The Product Leader Who Stopped Blaming Silicon Valley If you’ve spent any time in product management over the last decade, you’ve probably felt it — that slow creep of the role becoming narrower, more reactive, more about managing a backlog than shaping a business. Most people in the field have a...
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Chris Bunk's 3-Bucket AI Value Creation Framework & the Hands-On Learning Behind It
The Seasoned Tech Leader Who Went Back to School — And What He Learned If you look at Chris Bunk’s résumé, you’ll see an undeniably impressive track record. Current CPTO at FastSpring. SVP of Engineering at WorldPay. Years of leadership across fintech and enterprise technology. His is the kind of...
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2025 Christmas Special: How CTOs Are Maximizing AI in Their Organizations
A very Merry Christmas 🎅 to all those who celebrate! Two holiday gifts for you today: 1st 🎁 is an in-depth conversation with Susanna Holt (CTO) who offers us a great set of tips and tricks on effectively leveraging AI in Engineering & the broader organization. 2nd 🎁 is free access to our new...
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What CTOs Can Learn from Data Engineers & Quant Developers
I met Bethany Lyons by chance and it turns out that she is a semi-genius. You don’t meet too many of those! With a penchant for math + expertise in data & product leadership, Bethany has a unique vantage point on how Data Engineering & Quant Development is impacting Product & Engineering. More on...
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Advice for Startup Founders with Bob Gilbreath (2x Exits)
Bob Gilbreath is one of those rare people who is not only a multiple time, successful startup founder, but he also loves to share his knowledge with the world. You can find him at: https://theworkaround.substack.com/ He decided to hang out with us here at Technocratic and we had a great time...
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How a Laid-Back Lifestyle Company Launched a Product, Crashed Hard, and Then Bounced Back
Today, I analyze the topic of a GovTech business that released a new product to much fanfare, only to have it immediately crash due to too much traffic on the app, how they ultimately went about fixing the issue, and the lessons learned. If you’d like to submit a topic for analysis feel free to...
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Behind the Curtain: How CFOs & CTOs Drive PE Success
It’s only fitting that a CTO (me) and a CFO (CJ) sit down to tackle the biggest finance challenges CTOs face, and how to solve them through a Private Equity lens. Btw, I’ve been reading CJ Gustafson’s CFO newsletter for years and it’s perfect for CTOs. It’s filled with TON’s of immediate value...
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How CTOs Can Scale Their Impact at PE-Backed Companies
Claire has a TON of great insights for CTOs who are just starting out in PE-backed organizations. In our conversation, we cover: * What first-time CTOs need to know about operating in a PE-backed company * How PE business models shape technology roadmaps and priorities * The faster pace and…
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ChatGPT-5 Release: Win or Catastrophe?
Yuying & I hit the big topics: * GPT5: Hype or Big Step Forward * Impact on Productivity * AI Adoption in the Enterprise * AI in HealthCare * Costs Going Up? * AI Research Slowing Down? * And a bunch more topics… This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or…
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Ask Bobby: How To Better Leverage Your Team
As you rise in your technology career & decisions get bigger & bigger, there’s one mindset that can really cost you: 👉 Thinking you have to have all the answers & accidentally killing valuable insight from your team. Yes, as CTOs we’re expected to know everything from AI to blockchain to...
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Practical AI Adoption in Software Engineering
I had the chance to work closely with Matt Morgan during a critical chapter of his career, and watching his growth and impact was really something special. He’s an exceptionally bright architect & engineering leader, with that rare ability to zoom out to the big picture while still catching edge...
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AI Governance in the Enterprise
As a CTO Cesar Goulart stands out as a highly creative technology leader who’s always looking for new & innovative ways to get the job done. In today’s conversation, we deep-dive into AI in the Enterprise and how companies should build a governance structure around their implementations &...
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Building Innovative Product Teams
I recently discovered Shannon through his insights on building innovative product teams that can scale.In today’s conversation, we deep dive into how to build the right product team for your business, team culture, metrics, distributed decision making and more. For product executives who are...
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The Pivot from Services to Product
I recently discovered Erika through her insightful post on the transition from Services to Product—an area filled with both challenges and big opportunities.In today’s conversation, we dive deep into that very pivot, as Erika shares candid lessons and sharp insights from her own experience...
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Rise of the CPTO (Chief Product & Technology Officer)
Guest Profile When I first met JT (John Truchel) several years ago it was clear to me that he was much more than “just” a Chief Product Officer. As a CPTO (Chief Product & Technology Officer), JT has not only built great products and product teams he has also developed excellent engineering...
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Winning Strategies for CEOs & Top Execs
Nasser Chanda is a seasoned executive and CEO who has lead companies to double digit growth and through significant exit transactions. As a CEO, Nasser has built Sales, Product and Support organizations from scratch and taken a number of products & services to market successfully in the FinTech...
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Avoid Crashing in Your 1st Product Exec Role
Joel Hames is a veteran Chief Product Officer (CPO) with decades of experience helping lead and scale product & engineering teams in EdTech. As a CPO, Joel has built and launch many successful products that have positively impacted schools and students across the country. Known for his ability to...
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Why Every Successful CTO Needs to Follow the Money
Jason Pletcher is a veteran CFO & CEO with decades of experience helping lead and scale businesses across several industry verticals including Banking, EdTech, Analytics and more. As a CFO, he has spent years working closely with CTOs and technology teams to empower them with strong financial...
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Why Startup Founders Fail and What Every Startup Needs to Know
Guest Profile Marc Haskelson is a veteran executive and entrepreneur with decades of experience leading and scaling businesses across security compliance, marketing, consulting and more. As a CEO, he has built high-performing teams and helped startups grow into scaled up companies. Known for his...
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Building Winning Teams: Secrets from HP, Xerox & DEC in Their Heyday
In this episode of Technocratic, Bobby sits down with Lou Schiavone, a seasoned executive who has led organizations at Xerox, HP, and Digital Equipment Corporation. Lou shares deep insights into leadership, company culture, and why so many modern businesses struggle with short-term thinking. From...
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The Truth About AWS & AI
Ray and I go way back—we’ve fought battles in the trenches of Cloud Ops and come out victorious, though not without a few battle scars.He’s that rare blend of deep Cloud Ops expertise and strong business acumen—something you don’t often see in engineering leaders, especially in this space! 😂…
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Life of a High-End CTO
Gabriella has been involved in some really cool projects in her time as CTO & tech leader at some high-flying companies including Skype, American Express, T-Mobile and Sun Microsystems (back in it’s heyday)! At one point Gabriella was in charge of porting Skype to mobile! Which the 80’s and 90’s...
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The Right Way to Modernize Your Legacy Systems
I first met Richard when he walked into my office to discuss a modernization project he was working on. “Here comes another architect focused on the technical minutiae,” I thought. Boy, was I wrong. I learned more high-value insights about the project from Richard in half an hour than I had the...
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2024 Christmas Special
👋 Happy Holidays Technocrats :) I gathered a few of my friends together to discuss the hottest topics of the year. A little AI, some social media, a bit of security, and the inevitable side conversations that happen when someone spikes the eggnog. 🥴 Best holiday wishes to our entire…
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Rising Through the Ranks to CTO
Matt Zacks started as a software developer and made it to CTO of a $100M plus business — not an easy path for anyone. In this episode of Technocratic we talk to Matt about what he’s learned along the way and his guidance for those that want to rise to the top. Btw, I first met Matt when we did a...
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Building Offshore Engineering Teams
From building computers at home when he was a kid, to joining the military as a Russian interpreter, to VP of Engineering at a FinTech company, Norm has pretty much seen it all — that’s why I loved working with him. Norm has pretty much always been self-taught & learned everything the hard way....
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Deep Dive into IOT (Internet of Things)
For nearly 30 years, Hugo Borda has been successfully combining great technical talent with expert management and leadership skills. Hugo has worked across many industries from telecom to Big 5 consulting to finance and even marketing automation. He’s been CTO multiple times, lead teams as chief...
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Secrets to Building a Great Engineering Culture
If you've met Alberto, you know he’s a passionate, energetic, and hands-on leader. I love CTOs like that! With more than 20 years of running teams and building great products Alberto knows a thing or two about high performance. And his secret is that he always prioritizes people — which we’ll…
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Tactics & Tips for Succeeding as a Tech Leader
Patricia Remacle is a superb technology strategist & executive who has been managing product & engineering teams for 20+ years. I first met Tricia when she was running program management at an EdTech firm where I was CTO. I remember she knew all of the philosophy behind Agile but also all the...
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The Customer Whisperer
I met Meghan several years ago and realized right away that she had a special skill when it comes to working with customers. Not every Customer Support/Success leaders is able to instantly connect with customers, deescalate their issues, align with product and solve their problems. That’s why I...
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How to Excel at Product Management
Melissa Dobbins is many things: entrepreneur, product executive, engineer, mother, USC Trojan and Star Wars enthusiast. But to me she’s one of the top product leaders I’ve worked with — whip smart, creative, and with a great worth ethic. Melissa’s professional journey has taken her to stops at...
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Traps & Triumphs in Product Management
Lindsay is a passionate Product Leader with over 15 years of experience guiding teams to deliver impactful products that fuel digital transformation journeys. She loves crafting data-driven product roadmaps and owning the commercialization process to bring new products, features, and offers to...
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Salesforce Hype vs. Reality
Jill is an excellent Product leader who has been building solutions on the Salesforce platform for the last 15+ years. She holds seven certifications on the platform and is experienced in designing complex applications as well as scaling and supporting them. Jill has led cross-functional teams...
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Authentic Leadership for CTOs
For nearly 30 years, Hugo Borda has been successfully combining great technical talent with expert management and leadership skills. Hugo has worked across many industries from telecom to Big 5 consulting to finance and even marketing automation. He’s been CTO multiple times, lead teams as chief...
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The Latest Trends in AI from a Top Voice
As a Chief Product Officer and AI strategist with 20+ years of experience across multiple industries Yuying provides executives a relevant AI perspective, filtered by her extensive leadership experience and AI domain expertise. In our conversation, we discuss: * Recent innovation in the AI space…
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Going from Engineering to Product Management
Megan is an experienced product management executive. She has designed solutions across a number of different industry verticals including security, insurance, gov-tech and more. Megan’s experience includes time at Tyler Technologies, Thomson Reuters, Liberty Mutual, and more. Megan excels at...
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The Modern Day Software Architect
Adam is a world-class technologist who has been working in the software industry since 2009 and currently works as a software architect at PowerSchool (an EdTech company) where he's passionate about enabling dev teams to build highly scalable and secure products. Adam is an evangelist for great...
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Jumping from PM to Product Exec
Cristele Lartique is a product leader who's run teams in a number of different verticals, including FinTech, media, low-code, no-code, and more. Currently Cristele is Head of Product at Enduvo, a no-code content authoring and delivery platform for AR/VR/MR content. Prior to Enduvo, Cristele had...
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