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#0077 - Brendan Marsh - What really happened at Spotify

No Nonsense Leadership

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The Tri-Bleed Role of the CTO in Spotify

The guiding principle was that any line manager at any part of the business tends to not have more than about 12 people report to them. Eventually it got to a point where the CTO had too many chapter leads reporting to him and that had to become a, how do we solve that problem? The head of R&D encapsulated everything for tech product and design and data. So what we had was what we called the honchos.

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