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The CTO Podcast — 234 episodes

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The Software Factory: Why Document-Driven Development Is Reshaping How CTOs Build

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LIQUID – How CTOs Harness Complexity to Unlock Flow

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Steven Zgaljic, Jahnel Group, CTO: Harnessing AI for Health Insights

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Zayna Rose, Image Strategist & Communications Consultant: Elevating Your Image as a Tech Leader

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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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Dr. Aadeel Akhtar, PSYONIC's Visionary: Transforming Lives Through Advanced Bionic Prosthetics and Entrepreneurial Innovation

7

Decoding AI: Expert Panel Insights for CTOs

8

Ryan Kari, CTO of MagCanica: Revolutionizing Motorsports with Torque Sensors and the Art of CTO Leadership

9

Kathy Keating, Fractional CTO | Interim CTO | Executive Coach | CTO Levels™: Mastering Growth; Operational Excellence and Leadership Insights

10

Aliza Carpio, Director of Product Management Data Platform at JLL Technologies: The Code of Collaboration and Navigating Open Source

11

Maria Flynn, Founder and CEO AmbioLogix: Make Opportunity Happen

12

Dave Adsit, VP of Engineering SamCart: Coding Roots to C-Suite Insights

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Ksenia Palke, Head of AI at Airspace: AI in Time-Critical Shipments

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Devastate the Competition via Robust Design with Adam Bahret

15

Going First: Leading with Purpose in an Overthinking World with Nell Derick Debevoise

16

Joel Beasley, Modern CTO: Mastering the Art of Podcasting

17

Alex Balazs, CTO Intuit: Generative AI, Vulnerability and Leadership

18

Exploring RF Communication, Encryption, and AI with Dell Kronewitter

19

Crafting Code and Conquering Fear: A Journey Through Middle-Earth and Conway's Law

20

From Code to Cattle: Parallels Between Technology and Farming with Jennifer Cwagenberg

21

The Realities of Fundraising with Sean Nam

22

Navigating the Rollercoaster: From Rapid Growth to Unwinding with Tracie Hlavka

23

From Pragmatism to Pivot Tables: Navigating Leadership, Philosophy, and Data Mastery with Matt Van Itallie

24

CTO Leadership: Navigating Startup Realities and Inspiring Teams with Krijn Van der Raadt

25

Leadership, Technology, and the “It Depends” Philosophy: Insights from Kevin Goldsmith

26

Just use Flutter - Stephan Schmidt // Amazing CTO

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End of Stack Overflow -- Stephan Schmidt // Amazing CTO

28

Greenest Programming Languages -- Stephan Schmidt // Amazing CTO

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The future of CTOs with AI -- Stephan Schmidt // Amazing CTO

30

Vision, Strategy An Alignment -- Stephan Schmidt // Amazing CTO

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AI replaces programmers - Threads killing Twitter

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Building Organizational Trust in AI -- Ksenia Palke // Airspace

33

How to Apply AI at Your Company -- Ksenia Palke // Airspace

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Solo Projects // Reddit // Imaginary Problems // Estimation // GPT-4 Pitch Decks

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How CTO's Should Rely on Automation Infrastructure -- Rob Hirschfeld // RackN

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The Role of DevOps in Building Startups -- Rob Hirschfeld // RackN

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Industry-Specific Applications of AI -- Sanjay Sehgal // MSys

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Ethics & Human-AI Partnerships -- Sanjay Sehgal // MSys

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Focusing on Revenue Goals with Cross Functional Teams -- Ole Dallerup // Dreamdata.io

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Becoming a Tech Leader of a Fast-Growing Startup -- Ole Dallerup // Dreamdata.io

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The Performance Boosting Power of Feedback -- Darva Satcher // GitLab Inc.

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Unlocking the Power of the Skip Level Meetings -- Darva Satcher // GitLab Inc.

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Work on Your Reputation Inside and Outside Your Company! -- Kevin Goldsmith // DistroKid

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Grooming Engineering Managers -- Dalia Havens // Replicated

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Architecture to Manage Data Costs & Complexity -- Adrian Estala // Starburst

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The Evolution of the CDO Role -- Adrian Estala // Starburst

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Coaching Your Engineers vs. Giving Them Feedback -- Etienne de Bruin // 7CTOs

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The Power of Stillness for the CTO -- Brittany Cotton // 7CTOs

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How to Stop Juggling & Start Shipping Product -- Surya Oruganti // Argonaut

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No DevOps? No Problem -- Surya Oruganti // Argonaut

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Struggles in Buy-vs-Build Land -- Blake Messer // Cratejoy

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How to use ChatGPT to write code -- Blake Messer // Cratejoy

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Contribution Analysis for Your Dev Team -- Hezheng Yin // Merico

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Managing International Engineering Teams -- Hezheng Yin // Merico

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Impact of AI on a Digital Company's Carbon Footprint -- Richard Whitehead // Moogsoft Inc.

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Application of AI Techniques to IT Ops -- Richard Whitehead // Moogsoft Inc.

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Optimize Development with Automation -- Calvin Hendryx-Parker // Six Feet Up

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Build Resilient Systems -- Calvin Hendryx-Parker // Six Feet Up

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Solidifying Software Development Foundations -- Calvin Hendryx-Parker // Six Feet Up

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IOT For The Hot Tub Part 2 -- Jonathan LaCour // Mission

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Designing IOT For The Hot Tub -- Jonathan LaCour // Mission

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Invest In Serverless -- Jonathan LaCour // Mission

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What Is Kubernetes? -- Jonathan LaCour // Mission

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CTO'ing Mission Through Pandemic Lockdowns -- Jonathan LaCour // Mission

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On Degeneracy -- Aaron Longwell // Serverless

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Building the Legal Software System in Afghanistan -- Aaron Longwell // Serverless

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When Simple Concepts Unravel In The C-Suite -- Aaron Longwell // Serverless

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Doing Work As A Means Of Discovery -- Aaron Longwell // Serverless

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Left Brain Right Brain -- Aaron Longwell // Serverless

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Tips on nurturing your network -- Sri Shivananda // PayPal

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Building influence within your organization -- Sri Shivananda // PayPal

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Why fast communication is key -- Sri Shivananda // PayPal

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Publishing 'CTO Excellence in 100 Days' book -- Benjamin Shapiro // I Hear Everything

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Why CTOs care about podcasts -- Benjamin Shapiro // I Hear Everything

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Etienne on the ABCs of Getting Back on the Same Page

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Investing in People: A Look into Fleetio's Software Development Strategy with Jorge Valdivia

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How to Replace Yourself and Buy Time with Dan Martell

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[Replay] Build Your Own CTO Peer Group So That You Can Succeed with Brittany Cotton

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Myths of CTO Leadership with Mark Hunter

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[Replay] Doing Curiosity vs. Being Curiosity

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[Replay] Curiosity and the Unknown

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[Replay] When Curiosity Leads to Questions, But Not All Questions Represent Curiosity

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[Replay] Curiosity vs. Being Curious

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The Role of A CTO is Complicated

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[Replay] Aaron Longwell in the CTO Studio

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[Replay] How to Find The Best Employees in Tech Today, with Casey Kleindienst

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Sleep Tightly Through Your DevOps Woes with Phil Borlin and Ken Cone

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[Replay] The Importance of Psychology as a CTO with Dr. Dan Stoneman

89

Trunk-Based Development And Feature Flags With EJ & TJ

90

Change is Evolutionary with Dave Mangot

91

Getting Involved with Open Source Communities with Jesse White

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Feature Flags with Split.io CTO Patricio Echague

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The CTO & Diversity, Equity and Inclusion with Kathy Keating, Aaron Pina and Erik Enge

94

A Conversation With PayPal CTO, Sri Shivananda

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Extracting Value From Your Network with Erin Fusaro, Wayne Haber and Brent Thumlert

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How to Make the Horizon Model Better with Visibility Planning with Brant Cooper

97

What Evolutionary Biology Can Tell Us About Software Development - Part 2

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What Evolutionary Biology Can Tell Us About Software Development - Part 1

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Work on your reputation inside and outside your company! with Kevin Goldsmith and Claudius Mbemba

100

Grooming Engineering Managers with Dalia Havens, VPE at Replicated

101

Shopify's Technical Advisor To The CEO, Duncan Davidson

102

How To Do Skip Level Meetings with Nathan Broslawsky and Scott Graves

103

A CTO Implements DEI Early On: A Discussion With Joan Pepin

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What metrics do you use? A Discussion With Dave Mangot and Erik Enge

105

Be The Best Damn Fractional CTO You Can Be

106

Integrating New Hires Into Your Engineering Culture with Erin Fusaro and Tracie Hlavka

107

Designing a Great Hiring Process to Attract Engineers

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Deconstructing The Hiring Problem with Eric Lackore and David Lormor

109

4 Things The Security Team Wants From Their CTO with Naomi Buckwalter

110

QA with Lu Saenz and Pat Cullen

111

Coaching Your Engineers vs. Giving Them Feedback with Etienne de Bruin

112

Psychological Safety For Your Engineering Team with Kimeshan Naidoo, CTO Unibuddy

113

Help The C-Suite Understand Your CTO Role with Nishant Mathew and Jim Catts

114

Emotional Literacy Tools For The CTO, with Patty Leeper facilitating a 7CTOs Forum

115

CTO Strategies For Engineering Bonuses And Profit Sharing, with Agustin Lebron and 7CTOs

116

How The CTO Goes About Meeting Their Team's Needs, with Scott Graves and Chris Peterson

117

CTOs Building Web3 Startups Using Blockchains and NFTs

118

Are Your Needs Being Met In The C-Suite?

119

CTO Upgrades To OKRs by using GEMs and Sentinels

120

Engineering Staffing Strategies

121

The Power of Stillness for the CTO

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New Ideas About The Future of Work

123

Engineering Compensation Challenges

124

What Does Smart Contract Code For A DAO Look Like?

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CTO Relationships with Project Managers

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CTO Panel On DAO and Wallet Volatility

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CTO Introduction To DAO

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CTO And Data Ownership in Web3

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Build Your Own CTO Peer Group So That You Can Succeed

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CTO Discussion On Web3 Complexity

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CTO Under Fire Playbook

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CTO Timing For web3

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CTO Antidote to Decision Fatigue

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CTO Introduction to Web3

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How to Deal with Employees that Don’t Show Willingness to Participate in Relationships

136

Defining the CTOs Role in Relationships and Company Culture

137

Doing Curiosity vs. Being Curiosity

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Curiosity and the Unknown

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When Curiosity Leads to Questions, But Not All Questions Represent Curiosity

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Curiosity Vs. Being Curious

141

Creating A Agile And Innovative Infrastructure

142

Evidence As A Way To Deal With Ideas And Uncertainty

143

Communication Flow for Handling Inventions

144

Time Horizons And How We Address Needs

145

The Role of the CTO has shifted beyond just Technology

146

The two most important risk factors in customer and employment agreements

147

When, Why & How to start the Compliance Process

148

3rd Party & Bad Actor Risk Assessment

149

Navigating Compliance Risk as CTO from a startup idea in a garage to $1B+ unicorn

150

Protecting Your IP in Customer Agreements Part 2

151

Cyber Insurance, Compliance and Cyber Security

152

Cyber Insurance, Compliance and Cyber Security

153

Intellectual Property

154

Gitlab Transparency

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Must Have and Nice To Have Patents

156

Intellectual Property and Patenting Process

157

On Degeneracy

158

Building the Legal Software System in Afghanistan

159

When Simple Concepts Unravel In The C-Suite

160

Doing Work As A Means Of Discovery

161

Left Brain Right Brain

162

IOT For The Hot Tub Part 2

163

Designing IOT For The Hot Tub

164

Invest In Serverless

165

What Is Kubernetes?

166

What is it that CTOs need to know about Infrastructure trends?

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CTO'ing Mission through Pandemic Lockdowns

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CI/CD Pipelines Have Become Complicated

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Ep.113 IOT, Micro Services And Data Visualization

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Ep.112 A Dragonfly Leads To a Conversation About Ecosystems

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Ep.111 How To Build Your Own Backyard Pond

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Ep.110 Why We Ran Out Of Toilet paper During Covid

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Ep.109 Managing Expectations Part 2

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Ep.108 Managing Expectations Part 1

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Ep.107 Truth As A Management Style

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Ep.106 It's Hard To Be The Naysayer As CTO

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Ep.105 Time As A Metric

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Ep.104 Systems Theory: Why Projects Don't Deliver

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Ep.103 Surviving The Start Up Graveyard By Building A Nimble Company

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Ep.102 Being CTO Of A Market Leader

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Ep.101 Wrestling with the Changing Rules of The App Stores as CTO

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Ep.100 The Conflicted CTO

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Ep.99 Technology Playbook Part 4

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Ep.98 Tech Playbook Part 3

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Ep.97 Tech Playbook Part 2

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Ep.96 Tech Playbook #1

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Ep.95 VP of Engineering

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Ep.94 Emotional Intelligence

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Ep.93 Sprint Reviews

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Ep.92 Consulting To CTO

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Ep.91 The Immigrants Complex View of Self

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Ep.90 The 7 Deadly Sins Of Infrastructure As Code Part 3

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Ep.89 The 7 Deadly Sins Of Infrastructure As Code

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Ep.88 The Seven Deadly Sins Of Infrastructure As Code

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Ep.87 Agilestacks

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Ep.86 Black Boxes

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Ep.85 Security Penetration

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Ep.84 Network Layers

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Ep.83 The Blockchain Bandit

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Ep.82 The Imposter Syndrome

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Ep.81 Why Is Your Backlighting So Awesome

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Ep.80 Requirements of Writing A Book

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Ep.79 The Opportunity Relationship Square

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Ep.78 How to choose what Boards you want to be a part of

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Ep.77 When Hiring a Product Manager is better than hiring a CTO

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Ep.76 The Basics Of Trading

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Ep.75 Machine Learning

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Ep.74 The Fermi Paradox

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Ep.73 GPT-3 to Open AI

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Ep. 72 The Case For Infrastructure As Code Part 3

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Ep.71 The Case For Infrastructure As Code Part 2

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Ep. 70 The Case For Infrastructure As Code Part 1

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Ep. 69 Short Term Crisis Management or a Longer Term Thing

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Ep. 68 The CTO's Challenge Of Picking The Right Tools For The Job

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The Gig Economy & Product Roadmaps with Vidya Dinamani, Eric Lawler and Kamel Boulos

216

The Key to Company Culture, with Vidya Dinamani, Benji Koltai and Jerome Bonhomme

217

Growing and Scaling Your Tech Company with Michael Singer and friends

218

The Ins and Outs of the Car Finance Industry, with Robert Swisher, Brant Cooper and Sonia Steinway

219

Creating Culture and Productivity with Your Team, with Robert Swisher, Brant Cooper and Michael Young

220

The Present and Future of Data Science, with Christoper Keown, Robert Swisher and Alex Balazs

221

PR and Positive Publicity in Tech with Brian Jones, Alan Leard and Alex Balazs

222

Two CTOs, one Chief Architect & Dr. Debbie Chen from Hydrostasis

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Community Building with CTOs, with Dr. Tony Karrer

224

Innovating as a CTO in Online Advertising with Oded Cohen

225

Disrupting The Healthcare Market with CTO Unmesh Srivastava

226

From Engineer and Developer to CTO with Jesus Lizama

227

The Formula For Evaluating Start-Ups with Sergey Sundukovskiy

228

Why It’s Okay Not to Finish with Evan Phoenix

229

The World of Cloud Services with Jonathan LaCour

230

How CTOs Can Best Utilize Recruiters with Kimberly Owen

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The Psychology of People in Tech, with Joanie Connell

232

Optimism and Longevity as a CTO in a Healthcare Tech, with Larry Heminger

233

Hybrid CTO of Hardware and Software with Ahn Nguyen

234

Being CTO in the Health Insurance Industry with Alan Leard