Best Tobias Schlottke Alphalist Cto Podcast Podcasts (2025)

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#121 - Canva's Playbook: Scaling Teams, Tech, and AI with Adam Schuck // Senior Engineering Director @ Canva 1:01:03

2d ago1:01:03

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Insights into hypergrowth, late-stage career frameworks, AI adoption, and the tech powering Canva's collaborative editor. In this episode, Tobi chats with Adam Schuck, Senior Engineering Director at Canva, a company that has scaled to over 5,000 employees, 2,000+ engineers, and 230 million MAUs while remaining profitable. Adam shares his journey th…

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#120 - AI's Singularity & Commoditization: Navigating Hype vs. Reality with Georg Zoeller // Co-Founder @ C4AIL 1:13:51

16d ago1:13:51

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Debunking AI hype, exploring security risks, and strategies for CTOs in the age of rapid change. In this episode, Tobi talks with Georg Zoeller, Co-Founder of the Centre for AI Leadership and mercenaries.ai, about the turbulent landscape of AI. Georg, with his background at Meta and deep expertise in AI strategy, cuts through the hype surrounding A…

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#119 - Navigating Ambiguity and AI's Impact on Engineering feat. Ivan Kusalic // CTO @ Enpal 56:31

29d ago56:31

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Leading in ambiguous environments and the impact of AI on engineering practices In this episode, Tobi talks with Ivan Kusalic, CTO of Enpal, who leads a team of 250 engineers at one of Germany's leading solar energy companies. Ivan shares insights from his extensive technical leadership journey and his recent return to coding after seven years due …

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#118 - Radical Engineering Culture and High Bar Hiring feat. Stefan Richter // Founder & CTO @ freiheit.com technologies 1:02:51

1M ago1:02:51

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Ship Great Software Through Simplicity and Discipline Discover insights into building a high-performance engineering organization with Stefan Richter, founder of freiheit.com technologies. With 25+ years of experience delivering successful software projects for the Who’s Who of European businesses and industries, Stefan shares his philosophy of rad…

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#117 - Navigating AI Trends with Dat Tran // Partner & CTO @ DATANOMIQ, VP AI/ML @ Beams Safety AI 1:08:42

3M ago1:08:42

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Tobi and Dat discuss AI's impact on technical leadership, tools, deep learning, and Europe's innovation scene, including practical use cases for AI agents. AI is moving faster than ever, and staying ahead of the curve is a challenge for every tech leader. In this episode, Dat Tran joins Tobi to break down what’s happening in the AI space, from cutt…

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#116 - Exploring Platform Engineering feat. Camille Fournier // CTO @ Open Athena & Author @ O'Reilly Media 1:03:04

3M ago1:03:04

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Platform Teams and DevOps Optimization: Insights from Camille Fournier on platform engineering, career growth, and CTO strategies for success. How do you create an effective platform team and optimize DevOps? Tobi interviews Camille Fournier about her career, technical insights, and best practices in platform engineering. Camille shares her journey…

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115 - Exploring Growth and Compliance feat. Dennis Winter // CTO @ Börse Stuttgart 1:02:08

4M ago1:02:08

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Scaling Tech in Regulated Industries: Engineering Growth with Security, Compliance, and Culture Ever wondered how regulated companies like stock exchanges handle tech growth? Dennis Winter (CTO @ Börse Stuttgart) shares how to build engineering organizations in regulated environments. With experience from embedded systems to leading tech at Solaris…

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#114 - Building an SDK feat. Dr. Daniel Hauschildt // CPTO @ IMG.LY 41:06

5M ago41:06

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The Tech and Business Side of Building an SDK Get insight into the SDK business (and learn about cross-platform performance and developer marketing) with Dr. Daniel Hauschildt (MD & CPTO at IMG.LY). As a client-side offering (no servers!), IMG.LY needs to take extra steps to ensure reliability on all devices 📱, platforms 💻 and browsers 🌐. From craf…

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#113 - Faster Incident Response feat. Tim Armandpour // CTO @ PagerDuty 50:10

5M ago50:10

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Planning AND Practice: The Secret to Incident Response Plan and PRACTICE for better incident response with insights from Tim Armandpour, CTO of PagerDuty. Learn the secrets to resilience from the team that mitigated the impact of a major outage—handling a 250% traffic surge while delivering on their SLA. Listen to find out: 🛠️ Why planning AND prac…

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#112 - Cross Functional Team Members feat. Daniel Bartholomae // CTO @ optilyz 49:10

5M ago49:10

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Cross-Functional Team Members: What, Why, How Find out about cross-functional team members with Daniel Bartholomae, CTO at optilyz (direct mail SaaS). At optilyz, team members wear multiple hats—whatever hats they need to own the product lifecycle. From product management and design to development and customer engagement, this model eliminates silo…

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#111 - Organising for Impact feat. Eric Bowman // CTO @ King 56:20

6M ago56:20

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Output → Outcome → Impact | Product + Tech | Adjacent Possibilities How do we actually organize people to consistently deliver value and enjoy the process? This, Eric Bowman (CTO @ King) says, is the core challenge facing any CTO. In this thought-provoking episode, Eric shares insights from his remarkable career in gaming (The Sims, King), e-commer…

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#110 - Developer Efficiency feat. Rebecca Murphey // Field CTO @ Swarmia & Co-Author of Build 53:29

6M ago53:29

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Aligning engineering with business outcomes, developer productivity and developer experience Become a more effective team in this CTO podcast featuring Rebecca Murphey, Field CTO of Swarmia and co-author of Build. From her years of experience working in the developer productivity organizations at Stripe and Indeed and now at Swarmia, Rebecca knows …

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#109 - Cloud Cost Optimisation feat. Claire Fautsch // CTO @ Joblift 39:08

7M ago39:08

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From 100k to 30k: How Joblift slashed their monthly cloud bill Save Money on Cloud Costs with Claire Fautsch (CTO @ Joblift). Find out how the team at Joblift slashed monthly cloud costs from €100K to €30K without compromising performance.Listen to find out:📊 How to build dashboards 📈 How to align cloud costs with business KPIs🤝 How to get the enti…

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#108 - Monitoring as Code feat.Hannes Lenke // CEO & Co-founder @ Checkly 1:02:43

7M ago1:02:43

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How DevOps has Changed QA Keep an eye on the latest trends in this CTO podcast episode featuring Hannes Lenke (CEO and Co-founder of Checkly). Hannes shares insights from over a decade of shaping the testing and monitoring landscape. From AI-powered mobile testing to cloud-based browser testing to synthetic monitoring, he has seen it all.Listen to …

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#107 - Sustainability Over Hypergrowth feat.Tuomas Artman // CTO @ Linear 1:01:16

8M ago1:01:16

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Grow the business, not the headcount with insights from Tuomas Artman (CTO of Linear). Saying no to hypergrowth helped Linear succeed, but how did they do it? How did they build a high-quality product with a smaller team? Listen to find out: How to achieve quality products without increasing headcount 🌱 Avoiding feature bloat: The pitfalls of custo…

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#106 - Meritocracy, Backend and Engineer-led Sales feat. Shyam Sankar // CTO @ Palantir Technologies 48:36

8M ago48:36

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Diversity in Meritocracy Through Rebellion Discover new ways to do things with Shyam Sankar, CTO of Palantir, who is working to deprecate backend development using their experience with 150 independent dev teams running a collection of 5,000 microservices. Yet this podcast is more than that (although I was blown away by the demo)—expect great nugge…

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#105 - Trust & Accountability in Remote Teams feat. Sabrina Farmer // CTO @ GitLab 51:08

9M ago51:08

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AI-driven DevSecOps Find out how to build trust and accountability in a fully remote team in this CTO podcast featuring Sabrina Farmer, CTO @ GitLab. You will also hear how Sabrina draws on her experience in AI, DevSecOps, and her 19 years at Google to rethink the developer experience.Listen to find out:How Gitlab's CEO Challenge encourages develop…

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#104 - End-to-End Technical Independence feat. Alexander Matthey // CTO @ Adyen 59:00

9M ago59:00

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Independent. Direct. Security First Discover the benefits of end-to-end technical independence with Alexander Matthey, CTO of Adyen.Learn why Adyen cherishes its in-house strategy as Alexander shares how Adyen’s extreme technical independence (no third-party vendors) enables efficiency in everything from libraries to security. Listen to find out: S…

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#103 - David Cramer // Co-Founder + CPO @ Sentry 53:28

10M ago53:28

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DevTool 101 and evolving role of co-founder Explore the evolution of both a product and the role of its co-founder in this CTO podcast featuring David Cramer (co-founder + CPO @ Sentry). You will discover the pros and cons of each stage in Sentry's journey (open source -> bootstrap -> VC) and why David's role evolved (CEO -> CTO -> CPO). Listen to …

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#102 - Platform Engineering feat. Boyan Dimitrov // CTO @ SIXT 1:11:02

10M ago1:11:02

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Platform Engineering: Modularised, Standardised and Automated. Discover how to leverage platform engineering 🏗️ for convenience, standardization, automation, and reduced cloud costs in this CTO podcast featuring Boyan Dimitrov (CTO @ SIXT). SIXT is a leading global mobility provider serving customers in over 100 countries worldwide. With 800 tech e…

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#101 - AI Revolution Roundtable feat. Jonas Andruilis (Aleph Alpha), Rasmus Rothe (Merantix) & Johannes Schaback (SumUp) 57:44

12M ago57:44

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Transformative AI, Build/Buy AI, Business Opportunities and more Get ready for the AI industrial revolution 🦸 in this CTO podcast episode featuring a roundtable of AI AllStars!So much is happening in AI, and you want to be part of it - that is why we asked Jonas Andrulis (Founder and CEO of Aleph Alpha), Rasmus Rothe (Co-founder of Merantix and its…

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#100 - Intuition over 'Data Driven' feat. Jason Fried // co-founder + CEO @ 37signals 58:12

1y ago58:12

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Intuition over Data-Driven, Hooks over Towel Rails and Profit over Revenue Trust your intuition, you will gain a lot from this CTO podcast featuring Jason Fried, co-founder and CEO of 37signals, a company known for having groundbreaking policies and products (Basecamp, HEY, Once, etc.). He is also bootstrapping hero and author of multiple books (Ge…

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#99 -Team Topologies 101 feat. Matthew Skelton, co-author of Team Topologies 1:07:30

1y ago1:07:30

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A CTO’s Primer to Value Flow, Continuous Stewardship and Decoupling in Time Lead a more humane and effective organisation with inspiration from Matthew Skelton, co-author of Team Topologies. Inspired by system design💠, cybernetics🤖 and neuroscience 🧠, Team Topologies allows CTOs to structure their teams in a more humane way that reduces cognitive l…

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#98 - Service Levels 101 feat. Alex Ewerlöf - Sr Staff Engineer @ Volvo Cars & SRE Thought Leader 53:41

1y ago53:41

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SLIs,SLOs, SLAs - The WHY, WHAT, and HOW Embrace the Site Reliability Mindset with Alex Ewerlöf, Sr. Staff Engineer @ Volvo Cars 🚗 and SRE thought leader. Understand how the different aspects of site reliability work together 🪢 and when you need a DevOps vs. Platform Team vs. SRE. Find out how to set your own Service Level Indicators (SLI), Service…

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#97 - From Maker to Multiplier feat. Pat Kua // CTO Coach and Founder of the Tech Lead Academy 49:42

1y ago49:42

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Leadership Unlearnings, Metrics, Mindshifts and Communication Let’s become better Multipliers ✖️ in this CTO Podcast featuring Pat Kua, former CTO of N26 who by popular request now helps CTOs Level Up themselves and their teams. As a sought-after expert in helping ICs transition to leadership roles, Pat shares leadership gems with CTOs.Listen to fi…

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#96 - Radical Transparency feat. Charles Gorintin // CTO @ Alan & Co-Founding Advisor at Mistral 1:02:29

1y ago1:02:29

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Radical Transparency in Salaries, Decisions, and People Discover the power of radical transparency🧐 with Charles Gorintin, CTO of Alan (a French InsurTech) and founding force behind Mistral. He may work in a regulated space, but there is nothing typical about Alan’s setup when it comes to internal matters. Public Salary Framework ✅Searchable Board …

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#95 - Self-Efficacy and the journey from CTO to CPTO and Back feat. David Gebhardt // CTO @ mobile.de 55:28

1y ago55:28

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CPTOs, Timeboxing and Inbox Zero Become a better CTO/CPTO with these insights from David Gebhardt, CTO (and former CPTO) of mobile.de (Germany’s largest car vehicle marketplace).Originally the Head of Tech, David evolved into CPTO, eventually leading the 400-strong Product+Tech teams before evolving business needs led him to bring on a CPO and go b…

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#94 - Melanie Rieback // Co-founder & CEO at Radically Open Security 1:07:54

1+ y ago1:07:54

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Cybersecurity for CTOs in 2024 Let’s hack cybersecurity in 2024 with Melanie Rieback, Co-founder & CEO of Radically Open Security, the world’s first not-for-profit cybersecurity consultancy with a focus on PenTesting🔏. Melanie is on a mission to fix cybersecurity consulting by putting people before profits and empowering internal teams “how to fish…

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#93 - The Technical CTO + Readying for IPO feat. Allan Leinwand // CTO @ Webflow 52:54

1+ y ago52:54

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Leveraging Your Tech Knowledge as CTO: Staying Hands-On and Readying for IPO Embrace the technical side 🔧 of the CTO role with Allan Leinwand, CTO of Webflow 🖱️ who has combined technical know-how with great products on every layer of the OSI Model: from setting up HP’s first ethernet, CISCO’s early networks, building the world’s first CDN at Digit…

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#92 - Manage yourself to better manage others feat. Johanna Rothman // The Pragmatic Manager 57:06

1+ y ago57:06

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Self Management for CTOs and other Managers Want to become a better manager? Then manage yourself better! From managing the time you spend managing, and all the way to managing how you give your team new tasks… Let's get real with Johanna Rothman, whom they don’t call the Pragmatic Manager for nothing. You will love her straight-talking approach to…

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#91 - Autonomous Teams: Why, How and Who with Andy Walker // Former Senior Tech Leader @ Skyscanner + Google 46:58

1+ y ago46:58

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Autonomy, Motivation and Purpose Empower your team with the right type of autonomy 🚀 as we define the balance in this CTO podcast with Andy Walker, who has years of experience leadings teams at Skyscanner and Google. After 30 years in tech, Andy finally has the time to share what his hard won insights about tech leadership. You will enjoy his nuanc…

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#90 - Bob Moesta // Co-Architect of the "Jobs to Be Done" Theory 46:34

1+ y ago46:34

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Product Discovery for Engineers (and CTOs) Invest your engineering resources better by truly understanding the core problem your product needs to solve with this CTO podcast featuring Bob Moesta, co-architect of the Jobs to be Done Theory, who has developed and launched over 3500 products. As an engineer-turned-product-guru, Bob’s explanation of Pr…

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#89 - Melissa Perri // Author of "Escaping the Build Trap" and "Product Operations" 1:07:58

1+ y ago1:07:58

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CTOs Guide to Product Strategy and ProductOps Craft the ideal product strategy in this CTO podcast episode with Melissa Perri, author of “Escaping the Build Trap” and “Product Operations”.Find out how to become truly product-led: from your strategy to your metrics to your tooling. Listen to find out: How to balance qualitative 😍 and quantitative da…

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#88 - Luca Rossi // Creator @ refactoring.club 🌀 51:41

1+ y ago51:41

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Time Management + Continuous Learning Tips for CTO Stay on top of your professional development with these learning and productivity tips from Luca Rossi, whose refactoring.club newsletter 🌀 is read by 50k subscribers every week. After scaling Wanderio to 25M users 🚀 as founding CTO, Luca sat down to distill his experiences and in the process creat…

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#87 - Scott Chacon // Co-founder of GitHub and GitButler 51:51

1+ y ago51:51

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The Future of Version Control Systems Reimagine version control systems with Scott Chacon, Co-founder of GitHub and GitButler. Because, even Scott, a Git Veteran, will admit it: Git is a pain sometimes. 🫣 There is a serious Merge Conflict ⚔️ between how modern developers code and the workflow ordained by Git in the Linux mailing list days. Version …

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#86 - Leading Through A Layoff // feat. Mike Fisher - Former CTO @ Etsy 43:45

1+ y ago43:45

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Leading Through A LayOff: How to downsize nicely Is there a nice way to downsize? Mike Fisher, former CTO of Etsy, shares what he learned when the company downscaled by 27% in 2 rounds of layoffs right before he joined. Find out how you can help your team navigate this sensitive period - both pre- and post-layoff. How much time⏳ you lose in a layof…

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#85 - Thomas Dohmke // CEO @ GitHub 54:15

1+ y ago54:15

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The AI-Driven Future of Software Development, Scaling, and the Open Source git checkout the future of software development with Thomas Dohmke, CEO of GitHub. This broad podcast discusses everything from refactoring and scaling to the CTO/CEO role, from open source to AI as a Dev Tool. Every day Thomas delves into the development of software develop…

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#84 - Abi Noda // Co-Creator of the DevEx Metrics Framework 51:36

1+ y ago51:36

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DX: The Developer Metrics that Unlock Developer Productivity Find out the best way to measure Developer Experience 🧑‍💻in a way that truly enables ⚡ your developers (i.e. Developer Productivity) in this CTO podcast with Abi Noda - co-creator of the DevEx Framework and founder of Pull Panda. For years Abi has been on a quest to discover what develope…

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#83 - Aviran Mordo // VP Engineering @ Wix 1:06:36

1+ y ago1:06:36

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The Wix Guild model, Mentorship and Platform-as-a- Runtime Get inspired about architecture - that of computers and teams - in this CTO podcast with Aviran Mordo, VP Engineering at Wix. I really enjoyed talking with Aviran about both the technical nitty gritty of powering millions of websites as well as the Wix model which - unlike the Spotify model…

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#82 - Gertrud Kolb // CTO @ Eyeo 58:02

1+ y ago58:02

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How to restructure a large tech and product organisation Find out how to restructure your org using a matrix structure with Gertrud Kolb, CTO of eyeo (the company behind common adblockers). You will find out how Gertrud implemented changes across an already large organisation - from the team typologies to team communications. Listen to find out: Ho…

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#81 - Teresa Torres // Author of 'Continuous Discovery Habits' 47:11

2y ago47:11

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How to do continuous product discovery sustainably and as a team Find out how to do continuous product discovery with Teresa Torres who has taught over 12,000 people how to sustainably infuse their daily product decisions with customer input. You will find out why product should not be just a job title, but a mindset that the entire C-suite needs t…

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#80 - Sarah Polan // Field CTO @ Hashicorp 43:45

2y ago43:45

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Platform Engineering 101: Why you need it and how to do it Find out how to use platform engineering to scale your DevOps 🚀with this hands-on podcast with Sarah Polan, Field CTO at HashiCorp. Sarah is passionate about 2 things: DevSecOps 🔏 and automating everything 🔁 (she even automates aspects of her childcare :)). Which is why this podcast episode…

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#79 - Dr. Steven Rogelberg // Author of "Glad We Met: The Art and Science of 1:1 Meetings" 30:35

2y ago30:35

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How to Have Effective One-on-One (1:1) Meetings as a CTO Did you know that effective 1:1s will 3X your employee engagement? 🤩Maximise your 1:1 meetings 🤝 by leveraging the meeting science discovered by Steven Rogelberg (Chancellor's Professor at UNC Charlotte and author of 2 top-ranked books about meeting science: “The Surprising Science of Meeting…

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#78 - Stephen Wolfram // Founder & CEO of Wolfram Research 1:18:26

2y ago1:18:26

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Computational Thinking, LUIs and the AI-assisted Coding of the Future _ It is time to stop learning the computer’s programming language, and get computers to learn our language. _Prepare think different - or should we say alien 👾 - in this CTO podcast with Stephen Wolfram (Founder & CEO of Wolfram Research). Find out why we need to use computationa…

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#77 - Vikas Gupta // CTO @ Choco 51:43

2y ago51:43

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How to focus on business value in tech Find out how to use tech to deliver (not distract from) business value in this CTO podcast featuring Vikas Gupta, CTO at Choco (a digital platform connecting suppliers to their restaurants), who previously held senior engineering roles at Uber and Dropbox. Listen find out : ⚖️ How to balance product and platfo…

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#76 - Richard Socher // CEO @ You.com 58:02

2y ago58:02

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How AI will impact search, coding, digital marketing, jobs and more Get a handle on the latest developments in AI 🤩 in this CTO Podcast featuring Richard Socher, CEO of You.com (the world’s first AI- centric chat-based 💬 search engine). This is your opportunity to learn from the AI professor 🎓who co-authored the paper that introduced the term ‘prom…

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#75 - John Engates // Field CTO @ Cloudflare 47:00

2y ago47:00

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AI-Driven DevOps, Incident Response & the Role of Field CTO Buckle up for a journey through the evolution of DevOps with John Engates, the Field CTO at Cloudflare, who has been leading the charge since his days as CTO of Rackspace (2002-2018). Get ready for a fascinating ride as we explore the role of AI in DevOps and gain insights from a true indu…

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#74 - Shawn 'swyx' Wang // Developer Experience Expert 48:34

2y ago48:34

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How to use generative AI as a DevTool Dig deep into how to use generative AI as developer tool 🧑‍💻in this CTO podcast featuring Shawn ‘Swyx’ Wang. Shawn has not only headed Developer Experience at 3 Unicorns 🦄, but he is also the editor of the Latent Space AI/ML newsletter. Tune in to discover how generative AI will change programming and how to st…

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#73 Will Larson // Thought Leader @ Irrational Exuberance (lethain) 1:01:42

2y ago1:01:42

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How to find the ideal CTO Role in 2023: Location, Stage, Domain, Culture and Red Flags Focus on your CTO career in this podcast with Will Larson about leaving a CTO role, finding a new CTO role, and negotiating your compensation. Will is the thought leader behind the popular blog "Irrational Exuberance" and the book "An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of E…

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#72 - Kent C. Dodds // Co-Founder of Remix 58:27

2y ago58:27

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Revolutionizing Web Architecture: PESPA - The Future of Single Page Apps Like the UX of a SPA but developing it is a nightmare🤔?Then you should listen to this podcast about PESPA (Progressively Enhanced Single Page apps.🤩. You will learn from Kent C. Dodds, 💁‍♂️co-founder of Remix about this latest web architecture which combines the UX of a SPA (n…

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