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hota_mazi on June 25, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: The CTO Journey at a Small Startup

CTO as a startup cofounder and CTO of a large (100+) company are such different roles that they should really have different names.

If you're CTO because you co-founded the company or you joined at an early stage and you just happened to be the most senior engineer at the time, you really have no idea what being CTO of a large company is like.

AznHisoka on June 25, 2017 [–]

and thr same can be said of a CEO, COO, etc. Job titles are really meaningless in startups so who cares whether someone calls themselves a CTO or not?

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