How To Become a CTO

Описание: Are you wondering how can you become a CTO? Well, if we ask 100 CTOs of companies various of different sizes, we will get 100 unique stories.

There is really not one and the only way to become one. But there are some common patterns.

In this video, we go through different strategies that you can employ in order to increase your chances of becoming a CTO.

If you are interested in what a CTO does on a daily basis and how different a role is based on the company size, here is the link to the video:    • What Does a CTO do?  

0:00 Intro
0:33 Should you become a CTO?
1:20 Different strategies for becoming a CTO
1:34 Strategy 1: Start a company
2:27 Strategy 2: Become a founding engineer
3:00 Strategy 3: Go through the Management path
3:53 Strategy 4: Go through the Architecture path
4:38 Strategy 5: Go through the IC path
5:07 Strategy 6: Become a CTO through other roles, mostly Product
5:43 Learn more

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