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> I saw terrible decisions made by CTO and CIO

While a CTO needs to have grown up in the technical trenches to have credibility, a CTO should not be making any technical decisions anymore. If they are, that's a red flag for a CTO who can't let go and keeps micromanaging.



It depends on the company size. On a small startup with 10 people and a company with 1000 people have different CTO definitions and roles.


Yes, certainly. In a tiny startup the CTO is just a lead developer with more stock options than the others.


A CTO often will be the referee for making big technical decisions. If that CTO doesn’t have a good bullshit detector then bad decisions will be made.




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