SaaStr

JANUARY 4, 2024

Jason Warner , who was CTO of GitHub before and during my time as COO there (and a former partner at Redpoint!) joined forces with the incredibly talented Eiso Kant to build the world’s most capable AI for software development. Why did you do the deal?

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TurnKey Labs

JUNE 6, 2023

Ah, the age-old question: How do you hire a great backend developer when you’re running a startup or company? As a CEO/CTO/COO, you know that hiring the right team member is paramount to your company’s success.

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SaaStr

JULY 30, 2024

Selling to Developers Let’s look at software developers as your target customers, as users and buyers. Most software developers are skeptical. That might be the VP of Engineering, the CTO, and maybe even the CISO, CIO, and CMO. Why should they care? Is it going to solve their problems?

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Valerian Tech

MAY 4, 2023

DevOps is a software development methodology that can help legacy businesses streamline their digital transformation efforts. In this article, we'll explore the benefits of DevOps for legacy businesses and how a Fractional CTO can help overcome the challenges of DevOps adoption.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Before starting JFrog, the founders had built a successful IT consulting firm, AlphaCSP, which focused on developing Java solutions. In other words, they got first-hand experience of the pains of software development. The post JFrog IPO: Lessons For Entrepreneurs appeared first on SaaStr.

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IT World

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Vira Tkachenko, CTO at Ukraine software developer MacPaw , spoke remotely to Apple admins at Jamf’s JNUC event. A real-world example of a woman in a leadership position in tech , she explained how her company planned for business continuity during the war in Ukraine.

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Frontegg

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Since 1999, John Sonmez has been a highly popular blogger and speaker devoted to helping developers. He likes to optimize and accelerate software development by presenting complex concepts in a simple way. His Simple Programmer blog, a place that’s already frequented by thousands of developers, is a mandatory bookmark. #2

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SaaStock

MARCH 8, 2019

And then she studied software development at Fullstack Academy. It is full-service agile software development, UI/UX and data science consulting firm with offices in Hong Kong, Singapore, and San Francisco. In 2016, she co-founded Oxpecker Labs Limited and is also its CTO, responsible for developing its technology.

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CloudGeometry

JULY 8, 2021

Smart software development is driven by an actionable bias for paying it forward. See a useful background talk from their CTO Pini Reznik here ). It’s useful only if you can translate any gains you made with shortcuts in the code today to better code tomorrow.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott, in conversation with a16z’s Bob Swan, explains how AI copilots are keeping developers longer in a flow state and why AI copilots more broadly could be the start of an industrial revolution for knowledge work. [00:59] You’re building for things other than software development.

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Chief Technical Officer The CTO is responsible for outlining the company’s technological vision, implementing technology strategies, and ensuring that the technological resources are aligned with the company’s business needs. The company needs a high percentage of this metric to stay competitive.

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BetterCloud

AUGUST 6, 2021

” At that time, I said, “You know what, I think I really want to become a CIO or CTO.” When I decided I wanted to be a CIO or CTO , I was an associate director or what other companies might call a junior director. I’ve noticed this about software developers, but I also see it in many IT careers.

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Crafty CTO

APRIL 12, 2020

Bigger – it speaks to every aspect of the software development process. Where agile began I was managing software development projects at Viant in February 2001 when the Manifesto for Agile Software Development was published. Big as in a 143 page PDF. Not all agile is bad agile.

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Outseta

APRIL 11, 2019

Think of the best CTO-level software developers that you know—do you think your product would progress faster if they were building it 2-3 days per week, or if you hired an average developer in a full-time capacity? Consider the alternative of hiring a Junior Software Developer at a salary of $80,000 per year.

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Frontegg

JANUARY 7, 2022

So if you are a product manager or a development team leader, you should consider attending this event. Mamuna Oladipo (VP of Product, Spotify), Peter Wang (CTO, Buzzfeed), Aleks Safarova (VP of Product Design, Kayak), and Donnie D’Amato (Design Systems Architect, GoDaddy) will all be there. The list of speakers is really impressive.

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SaaStr

MAY 8, 2019

Twilio allows software developers to programmatically make and receive phone calls, text messages, and other communications through its web service APIs. Jeff Lawson began his career as Founder, CEO and CTO of Versity.com, a venture he embarked on part way through his time at the University of Michigan.

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Audacix

JULY 18, 2022

DevOps is really a set of ideas and practices that emphasise a culture and environment where building, testing, and releasing software can happen rapidly, frequently, and more reliably. DevOps best practices that will help you to run your software development projects smoothly.

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Crafty CTO

MAY 1, 2020

As you might have noticed, Shape Up is all about sciencing the s**t out of every aspect of software development, and they did it again here. So why feel ashamed or angry about something that’s just a reality of software development (and in fact all project work)? Shape Up tells us: This is how it is.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

The next five years are sort of terrifying for security, because I’ll tell you, one of my CTO, one of the early things he said to me back in the day that Adobe Sign/Echo Sign. Are you building software differently than you have for the last 15 years? Someone forgot to turn the security on, the elastic database.

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SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2019

Prior to founding Twilio, Jeff was the Founder & CTO @ Nine Star Inc and enjoyed a spell at Amazon as a Technical Product Manager. Prior to founding Twilio, Jeff was the founder and CTO at Nine Star Inc. Really quickly, I am a software developer and I’d started multiple companies before Twilio.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 16, 2020

I think that storytelling is a bit of a lost art in software development and we’re starting to rediscover it. Paul Rosania: So let’s imagine I went to you as a CTO. What do you think in terms of the ideal relationship between product and marketing? And how would that play out to you in an ideal world?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

That was our first transitionary moment, and from that point forward, we began investing heavily in building a way to teach people technology skills outside of a physical classroom. If you’re a CTO today of any company, regardless of industry, you are striving to become a tech company. Where’s the skills gap?

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Sales Hacker

JULY 21, 2020

Where’s the software development coming from? So the gentlemen that I actually worked for and under for a while at MiMedia is an amazing CTO, and he was someone I called as we started this to say, “Look, I’ve got this MVP that I just outsourced to get something to be able to show investors and prove it out.

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