How to Be a Successful CTO

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The skills that you need as a CTO is very different from what you need when you're running a 5,000% organization. I think people underestimate the impact of the leaders that CTO or VP of engineering has in terms of being able to execute. People matter and it matters in a 10% organization it matters in 5,000% organizations especially the leadership. You try to set a culture and a system in place and you need the feedback loop from your directs to be able to tune it otherwise it just goes somewhere that you don't expect it to be.

Former Atlassian CTO Sri Viswanath shares his lessons on engineering leadership, such as aligning goals, handling difficult situations, and optimizing team metrics. Jason, Eiso and Sri talk about their experiences with system failures and the importance of technical mentors and CTOs in promoting better leadership.

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