CTO Connection Podcast
1) Performance Management at Indeed
Performance management has been a hot topic during this “year of efficiency”. In this Interview RC Johnson shares his experiences of building out, scaling and refining the performance management proce...Show More
2) Allison McMillan - Making offsites meaningful
In a world where getting everyone into the same office five days a week is increasingly difficult, offsites are becoming an essential tool for aligning and connecting teams, departments and companies....Show More
3) Paul Zhang - Town halls - influence at scale
Over the last decade as Avant has scaled to an 800+ person company, town halls have been a consistent pillar of their interval communications strategy to support and reinforce culture.This week Paul Z...Show More
4) Aviv Ben-Yosef - Accelerating Developer Growth
Hiring junior developers is always a concern. They’re easier to find and cost less than experienced engineers, but in addition to being less productive, they can easily become a drag on the performanc...Show More
5) Rukmini Reddy - Leading with Empathy During Change
As engineering leaders, we have a responsibility to our organizations and their bottom line. At the same time, we’re leading humans, not automatons, and understanding and supporting the people in our ...Show More
6) Kit Colbert - From intern to CTO - lessons learned
Kit Colbert has taken an atypical route to becoming the CTO of a large, publicly traded corporation. He started at VMWare 20 years ago as an individual contributor and worked his way up to CTO leading...Show More
7) Jeremiah Stone - Choosing the right level of abstraction
Naturally, as CTOs, we often think about our job as to work with developers to ship software. But what does that mean in a world of frameworks, low code, no code, and even GenAI solutions? In this fas...Show More
8) Josh Builder - Creating a compelling engineering brand
Over the last decade Josh Builder has led engineering at The Orchard (music), SoulCycle (fitness), Rent the Runway (fashion), and now Signify Health (healthcare). None of these were deep tech companie...Show More
9) Albert Wenger - Preparing for LLMs
In this week's interview with Albert Wenger, Managing Partner at Union Square Ventures, we discussed the changes that LLMs might bring - to our engineering teams, our products, and our society. W...Show More
10) Raji Subramanian - The three stages of value creation
Raji Subramanian brings a wide range of experience to the role of CTO at Opendoor (Nasdaq OPEN). She honed her technical chops culminating in a Principal Engineer role at Amazon and then ran engineeri...Show More