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Discussion on: What's the difference between a Developer and a CTO?

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Ryan Latta

Its not a bad way to distill it down tbh.

It allows for the reality that it can be an asset or a liability.

Some other elements that are hidden in it are budget, teams, organizations, strategic business goals, etc.

Having been the CTO, one weighty problem is looking at where you want to be in the future and acknowleding when the past is holdiing you back and what you're doing to do about it.

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Valentin Sawadski (he/him)

True there are many aspects to being a CTO! But in my head it all boils down to setting and meeting company milestones.

And of course it's tricky to actually achieve those but one key learning I had was accepting that in the end picking the right Technology in a company is just as important as picking the right screws in construction. And yes you need the right tools, but screws alone don't build a house.