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

A CTO should have at some point been a strong engineer, but IMO once you gain the title of CTO you should broaden your perspective and focus on higher impact activities (and yes, there are activities that have higher impact than raw programming skill).

AznHisoka on June 25, 2017 [–]

true but your analogy is terrible. on a scale of 1-10, invoice processing is like a 3 while coding is a 8.

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