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The CTO Podcast
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The CTO Podcast explores the worlds of Chief Technical officers as they manage the trials, tribulations, and triumphs of technologists in the C-suite. Hosted by Etienne de Bruin, founder of 7CTOs and author of CTO Excellence in 100 Days: Becoming the leader your company deserves.
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Episodes
234 episodes
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The Software Factory: Why Document-Driven Development Is Reshaping How CTOs Build
62:43 • Dec 19, 2025 -
LIQUID – How CTOs Harness Complexity to Unlock Flow
95:13 • Aug 20, 2025 -
Steven Zgaljic, Jahnel Group, CTO: Harnessing AI for Health Insights
18:44 • Apr 1, 2025 -
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Decoding AI: Expert Panel Insights for CTOs
74:52 • Oct 8, 2024 -
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Maria Flynn, Founder and CEO AmbioLogix: Make Opportunity Happen
56:11 • Jun 25, 2024 -
Dave Adsit, VP of Engineering SamCart: Coding Roots to C-Suite Insights
71:23 • Jun 18, 2024 -
Ksenia Palke, Head of AI at Airspace: AI in Time-Critical Shipments
58:39 • Jun 11, 2024 -
Devastate the Competition via Robust Design with Adam Bahret
43:19 • May 28, 2024 -
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Joel Beasley, Modern CTO: Mastering the Art of Podcasting
49:14 • May 14, 2024 -
Alex Balazs, CTO Intuit: Generative AI, Vulnerability and Leadership
39:41 • May 7, 2024 -
Exploring RF Communication, Encryption, and AI with Dell Kronewitter
44:00 • Apr 30, 2024 -
Crafting Code and Conquering Fear: A Journey Through Middle-Earth and Conway's Law
43:55 • Apr 16, 2024 -
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The Realities of Fundraising with Sean Nam
37:49 • Apr 2, 2024 -
Navigating the Rollercoaster: From Rapid Growth to Unwinding with Tracie Hlavka
33:35 • Mar 26, 2024 -
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Just use Flutter - Stephan Schmidt // Amazing CTO
51:00 • Sep 6, 2023 -
End of Stack Overflow -- Stephan Schmidt // Amazing CTO
38:00 • Jul 31, 2023 -
Greenest Programming Languages -- Stephan Schmidt // Amazing CTO
50:56 • Jul 25, 2023 -
The future of CTOs with AI -- Stephan Schmidt // Amazing CTO
16:30 • Jul 13, 2023 -
Vision, Strategy An Alignment -- Stephan Schmidt // Amazing CTO
17:13 • Jul 12, 2023 -
AI replaces programmers - Threads killing Twitter
64:10 • Jul 11, 2023 -
Building Organizational Trust in AI -- Ksenia Palke // Airspace
19:30 • Jul 4, 2023 -
How to Apply AI at Your Company -- Ksenia Palke // Airspace
21:52 • Jul 3, 2023 -
Solo Projects // Reddit // Imaginary Problems // Estimation // GPT-4 Pitch Decks
56:38 • Jun 23, 2023 -
How CTO's Should Rely on Automation Infrastructure -- Rob Hirschfeld // RackN
29:51 • Jun 21, 2023 -
The Role of DevOps in Building Startups -- Rob Hirschfeld // RackN
19:02 • Jun 20, 2023 -
Industry-Specific Applications of AI -- Sanjay Sehgal // MSys
19:04 • Jun 16, 2023 -
Ethics & Human-AI Partnerships -- Sanjay Sehgal // MSys
17:52 • Jun 15, 2023 -
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Becoming a Tech Leader of a Fast-Growing Startup -- Ole Dallerup // Dreamdata.io
18:45 • Jun 8, 2023 -
The Performance Boosting Power of Feedback -- Darva Satcher // GitLab Inc.
21:44 • Jun 6, 2023 -
Unlocking the Power of the Skip Level Meetings -- Darva Satcher // GitLab Inc.
18:10 • Jun 5, 2023 -
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Grooming Engineering Managers -- Dalia Havens // Replicated
34:23 • May 29, 2023 -
Architecture to Manage Data Costs & Complexity -- Adrian Estala // Starburst
16:37 • May 26, 2023 -
The Evolution of the CDO Role -- Adrian Estala // Starburst
19:43 • May 25, 2023 -
Coaching Your Engineers vs. Giving Them Feedback -- Etienne de Bruin // 7CTOs
18:37 • May 22, 2023 -
The Power of Stillness for the CTO -- Brittany Cotton // 7CTOs
14:04 • May 18, 2023 -
How to Stop Juggling & Start Shipping Product -- Surya Oruganti // Argonaut
11:31 • May 16, 2023 -
No DevOps? No Problem -- Surya Oruganti // Argonaut
15:42 • May 15, 2023 -
Struggles in Buy-vs-Build Land -- Blake Messer // Cratejoy
16:55 • May 12, 2023 -
How to use ChatGPT to write code -- Blake Messer // Cratejoy
19:29 • May 11, 2023 -
Contribution Analysis for Your Dev Team -- Hezheng Yin // Merico
19:11 • May 10, 2023 -
Managing International Engineering Teams -- Hezheng Yin // Merico
20:35 • May 9, 2023 -
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Application of AI Techniques to IT Ops -- Richard Whitehead // Moogsoft Inc.
23:58 • May 4, 2023 -
Optimize Development with Automation -- Calvin Hendryx-Parker // Six Feet Up
22:01 • Apr 28, 2023 -
Build Resilient Systems -- Calvin Hendryx-Parker // Six Feet Up
13:19 • Apr 27, 2023 -
Solidifying Software Development Foundations -- Calvin Hendryx-Parker // Six Feet Up
15:44 • Apr 26, 2023 -
IOT For The Hot Tub Part 2 -- Jonathan LaCour // Mission
11:03 • Apr 21, 2023 -
Designing IOT For The Hot Tub -- Jonathan LaCour // Mission
13:21 • Apr 20, 2023 -
Invest In Serverless -- Jonathan LaCour // Mission
11:45 • Apr 19, 2023 -
What Is Kubernetes? -- Jonathan LaCour // Mission
12:56 • Apr 18, 2023 -
CTO'ing Mission Through Pandemic Lockdowns -- Jonathan LaCour // Mission
12:11 • Apr 17, 2023 -
On Degeneracy -- Aaron Longwell // Serverless
24:40 • Apr 14, 2023 -
Building the Legal Software System in Afghanistan -- Aaron Longwell // Serverless
28:18 • Apr 13, 2023 -
When Simple Concepts Unravel In The C-Suite -- Aaron Longwell // Serverless
12:40 • Apr 12, 2023 -
Doing Work As A Means Of Discovery -- Aaron Longwell // Serverless
12:35 • Apr 11, 2023 -
Left Brain Right Brain -- Aaron Longwell // Serverless
17:47 • Apr 10, 2023 -
Tips on nurturing your network -- Sri Shivananda // PayPal
12:58 • Apr 6, 2023 -
Building influence within your organization -- Sri Shivananda // PayPal
16:42 • Apr 5, 2023 -
Why fast communication is key -- Sri Shivananda // PayPal
12:47 • Apr 4, 2023 -
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Why CTOs care about podcasts -- Benjamin Shapiro // I Hear Everything
08:55 • Mar 22, 2023 -
Etienne on the ABCs of Getting Back on the Same Page
09:36 • Feb 8, 2023 -
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How to Replace Yourself and Buy Time with Dan Martell
48:54 • Jan 25, 2023 -
![[Replay] Build Your Own CTO Peer Group So That You Can Succeed with Brittany Cotton](https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/2550488/post/143870838/02066b06a4cc04f7a54134e2fe321456.jpg)
[Replay] Build Your Own CTO Peer Group So That You Can Succeed with Brittany Cotton
21:49 • Jan 18, 2023 -
Myths of CTO Leadership with Mark Hunter
52:26 • Jan 11, 2023 -
![[Replay] Doing Curiosity vs. Being Curiosity](https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/2550488/post/143870840/0098e11f104f7faa783aa5ab33fd6472.jpg)
[Replay] Doing Curiosity vs. Being Curiosity
11:39 • Dec 21, 2022 -
![[Replay] Curiosity and the Unknown](https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/2550488/post/143870841/793e463ca18323d937d9bc20bf735ed5.jpg)
[Replay] Curiosity and the Unknown
12:35 • Dec 14, 2022 -
![[Replay] When Curiosity Leads to Questions, But Not All Questions Represent Curiosity](https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/2550488/post/143870842/c0db19ecb6a12664c3c9e4e60a107339.jpg)
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![[Replay] Curiosity vs. Being Curious](https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/2550488/post/143870843/11b34abf5d14ea33ea4d4c4f5c6aad13.jpg)
[Replay] Curiosity vs. Being Curious
10:41 • Nov 30, 2022 -
The Role of A CTO is Complicated
15:32 • Nov 23, 2022 -
![[Replay] Aaron Longwell in the CTO Studio](https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/2550488/post/143870845/c409a872c73495d6adab7836004a49be.jpg)
[Replay] Aaron Longwell in the CTO Studio
74:09 • Nov 16, 2022 -
![[Replay] How to Find The Best Employees in Tech Today, with Casey Kleindienst](https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/2550488/post/143870846/b7c92fbf2eb938cc46e811e4a04dec77.jpg)
[Replay] How to Find The Best Employees in Tech Today, with Casey Kleindienst
40:37 • Nov 9, 2022 -
Sleep Tightly Through Your DevOps Woes with Phil Borlin and Ken Cone
63:10 • Nov 2, 2022 -
![[Replay] The Importance of Psychology as a CTO with Dr. Dan Stoneman](https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/2550488/post/143870848/ec79dc39de69f07f1db4e500db636483.jpg)
[Replay] The Importance of Psychology as a CTO with Dr. Dan Stoneman
41:18 • Oct 26, 2022 -
Trunk-Based Development And Feature Flags With EJ & TJ
44:40 • Oct 19, 2022 -
Change is Evolutionary with Dave Mangot
44:28 • Oct 5, 2022 -
Getting Involved with Open Source Communities with Jesse White
44:17 • Sep 28, 2022 -
Feature Flags with Split.io CTO Patricio Echague
45:11 • Sep 21, 2022 -
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A Conversation With PayPal CTO, Sri Shivananda
39:43 • Sep 7, 2022 -
Extracting Value From Your Network with Erin Fusaro, Wayne Haber and Brent Thumlert
36:12 • Aug 31, 2022 -
How to Make the Horizon Model Better with Visibility Planning with Brant Cooper
39:13 • Aug 24, 2022 -
What Evolutionary Biology Can Tell Us About Software Development - Part 2
44:03 • Aug 17, 2022 -
What Evolutionary Biology Can Tell Us About Software Development - Part 1
39:54 • Aug 10, 2022 -
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Grooming Engineering Managers with Dalia Havens, VPE at Replicated
34:23 • Jul 1, 2022 -
Shopify's Technical Advisor To The CEO, Duncan Davidson
38:30 • Jun 20, 2022 -
How To Do Skip Level Meetings with Nathan Broslawsky and Scott Graves
36:23 • Jun 9, 2022 -
A CTO Implements DEI Early On: A Discussion With Joan Pepin
49:41 • May 23, 2022 -
What metrics do you use? A Discussion With Dave Mangot and Erik Enge
42:07 • May 17, 2022 -
Be The Best Damn Fractional CTO You Can Be
13:36 • May 9, 2022 -
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Designing a Great Hiring Process to Attract Engineers
40:31 • Apr 25, 2022 -
Deconstructing The Hiring Problem with Eric Lackore and David Lormor
35:54 • Apr 18, 2022 -
4 Things The Security Team Wants From Their CTO with Naomi Buckwalter
15:12 • Apr 11, 2022 -
QA with Lu Saenz and Pat Cullen
43:42 • Apr 4, 2022 -
Coaching Your Engineers vs. Giving Them Feedback with Etienne de Bruin
18:36 • Mar 28, 2022 -
Psychological Safety For Your Engineering Team with Kimeshan Naidoo, CTO Unibuddy
33:43 • Mar 21, 2022 -
Help The C-Suite Understand Your CTO Role with Nishant Mathew and Jim Catts
52:03 • Mar 14, 2022 -
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CTOs Building Web3 Startups Using Blockchains and NFTs
41:58 • Feb 21, 2022 -
Are Your Needs Being Met In The C-Suite?
31:01 • Feb 18, 2022 -
CTO Upgrades To OKRs by using GEMs and Sentinels
50:48 • Feb 14, 2022 -
Engineering Staffing Strategies
45:44 • Feb 8, 2022 -
The Power of Stillness for the CTO
14:04 • Jan 31, 2022 -
New Ideas About The Future of Work
32:24 • Jan 27, 2022 -
Engineering Compensation Challenges
39:11 • Jan 25, 2022 -
What Does Smart Contract Code For A DAO Look Like?
21:59 • Jan 21, 2022 -
CTO Relationships with Project Managers
24:53 • Jan 18, 2022 -
CTO Panel On DAO and Wallet Volatility
36:50 • Jan 13, 2022 -
CTO Introduction To DAO
38:38 • Jan 11, 2022 -
CTO And Data Ownership in Web3
40:17 • Jan 6, 2022 -
Build Your Own CTO Peer Group So That You Can Succeed
23:32 • Jan 3, 2022 -
CTO Discussion On Web3 Complexity
44:26 • Dec 31, 2021 -
CTO Under Fire Playbook
52:07 • Dec 28, 2021 -
CTO Timing For web3
53:08 • Dec 23, 2021 -
CTO Antidote to Decision Fatigue
14:08 • Dec 20, 2021 -
CTO Introduction to Web3
57:50 • Dec 17, 2021 -
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Defining the CTOs Role in Relationships and Company Culture
16:24 • Nov 16, 2021 -
Doing Curiosity vs. Being Curiosity
13:29 • Nov 11, 2021 -
Curiosity and the Unknown
14:47 • Oct 27, 2021 -
When Curiosity Leads to Questions, But Not All Questions Represent Curiosity
18:10 • Oct 18, 2021 -
Curiosity Vs. Being Curious
13:18 • Oct 13, 2021 -
Creating A Agile And Innovative Infrastructure
36:49 • Oct 7, 2021 -
Evidence As A Way To Deal With Ideas And Uncertainty
17:52 • Sep 23, 2021 -
Communication Flow for Handling Inventions
15:17 • Sep 20, 2021 -
Time Horizons And How We Address Needs
14:06 • Sep 9, 2021 -
The Role of the CTO has shifted beyond just Technology
13:29 • Aug 31, 2021 -
The two most important risk factors in customer and employment agreements
15:22 • Aug 6, 2021 -
When, Why & How to start the Compliance Process
15:32 • Jul 27, 2021 -
3rd Party & Bad Actor Risk Assessment
10:40 • Jul 15, 2021 -
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Protecting Your IP in Customer Agreements Part 2
16:37 • Jun 23, 2021 -
Cyber Insurance, Compliance and Cyber Security
17:20 • Jun 16, 2021 -
Cyber Insurance, Compliance and Cyber Security
35:03 • Jun 11, 2021 -
Intellectual Property
74:57 • Jun 4, 2021 -
Gitlab Transparency
58:20 • May 27, 2021 -
Must Have and Nice To Have Patents
39:05 • May 21, 2021 -
Intellectual Property and Patenting Process
37:35 • May 11, 2021 -
On Degeneracy
24:40 • May 4, 2021 -
Building the Legal Software System in Afghanistan
28:18 • Apr 27, 2021 -
When Simple Concepts Unravel In The C-Suite
12:40 • Apr 20, 2021 -
Doing Work As A Means Of Discovery
12:35 • Apr 15, 2021 -
Left Brain Right Brain
17:47 • Apr 13, 2021 -
IOT For The Hot Tub Part 2
11:03 • Apr 8, 2021 -
Designing IOT For The Hot Tub
13:21 • Apr 6, 2021 -
Invest In Serverless
11:45 • Apr 1, 2021 -
What Is Kubernetes?
12:56 • Mar 31, 2021 -
What is it that CTOs need to know about Infrastructure trends?
12:06 • Mar 25, 2021 -
CTO'ing Mission through Pandemic Lockdowns
12:11 • Mar 23, 2021 -
CI/CD Pipelines Have Become Complicated
13:57 • Mar 18, 2021 -
Ep.113 IOT, Micro Services And Data Visualization
17:44 • Mar 16, 2021 -
Ep.112 A Dragonfly Leads To a Conversation About Ecosystems
12:32 • Mar 11, 2021 -
Ep.111 How To Build Your Own Backyard Pond
18:13 • Mar 9, 2021 -
Ep.110 Why We Ran Out Of Toilet paper During Covid
16:33 • Mar 5, 2021 -
Ep.109 Managing Expectations Part 2
15:35 • Mar 2, 2021 -
Ep.108 Managing Expectations Part 1
10:43 • Feb 25, 2021 -
Ep.107 Truth As A Management Style
12:44 • Feb 23, 2021 -
Ep.106 It's Hard To Be The Naysayer As CTO
12:51 • Feb 18, 2021 -
Ep.105 Time As A Metric
15:56 • Feb 16, 2021 -
Ep.104 Systems Theory: Why Projects Don't Deliver
18:44 • Feb 11, 2021 -
Ep.103 Surviving The Start Up Graveyard By Building A Nimble Company
14:58 • Feb 9, 2021 -
Ep.102 Being CTO Of A Market Leader
13:51 • Feb 5, 2021 -
Ep.101 Wrestling with the Changing Rules of The App Stores as CTO
16:31 • Feb 2, 2021 -
Ep.100 The Conflicted CTO
14:32 • Jan 28, 2021 -
Ep.99 Technology Playbook Part 4
14:42 • Jan 25, 2021 -
Ep.98 Tech Playbook Part 3
09:12 • Jan 20, 2021 -
Ep.97 Tech Playbook Part 2
13:35 • Jan 12, 2021 -
Ep.96 Tech Playbook #1
11:18 • Jan 7, 2021 -
Ep.95 VP of Engineering
06:56 • Dec 28, 2020 -
Ep.94 Emotional Intelligence
14:07 • Dec 22, 2020 -
Ep.93 Sprint Reviews
11:00 • Dec 15, 2020 -
Ep.92 Consulting To CTO
19:16 • Dec 9, 2020 -
Ep.91 The Immigrants Complex View of Self
06:37 • Dec 1, 2020 -
Ep.90 The 7 Deadly Sins Of Infrastructure As Code Part 3
15:03 • Nov 24, 2020 -
Ep.89 The 7 Deadly Sins Of Infrastructure As Code
09:26 • Nov 17, 2020 -
Ep.88 The Seven Deadly Sins Of Infrastructure As Code
11:49 • Nov 12, 2020 -
Ep.87 Agilestacks
05:15 • Nov 3, 2020 -
Ep.86 Black Boxes
13:25 • Oct 30, 2020 -
Ep.85 Security Penetration
08:05 • Oct 20, 2020 -
Ep.84 Network Layers
09:58 • Oct 15, 2020 -
Ep.83 The Blockchain Bandit
10:55 • Oct 13, 2020 -
Ep.82 The Imposter Syndrome
07:06 • Oct 8, 2020 -
Ep.81 Why Is Your Backlighting So Awesome
06:42 • Oct 6, 2020 -
Ep.80 Requirements of Writing A Book
14:21 • Sep 29, 2020 -
Ep.79 The Opportunity Relationship Square
06:40 • Sep 22, 2020 -
Ep.78 How to choose what Boards you want to be a part of
13:02 • Sep 15, 2020 -
Ep.77 When Hiring a Product Manager is better than hiring a CTO
07:38 • Sep 8, 2020 -
Ep.76 The Basics Of Trading
15:04 • Sep 1, 2020 -
Ep.75 Machine Learning
06:53 • Aug 25, 2020 -
Ep.74 The Fermi Paradox
06:31 • Aug 18, 2020 -
Ep.73 GPT-3 to Open AI
11:15 • Aug 11, 2020 -
Ep. 72 The Case For Infrastructure As Code Part 3
10:08 • Aug 4, 2020 -
Ep.71 The Case For Infrastructure As Code Part 2
11:17 • Jul 28, 2020 -
Ep. 70 The Case For Infrastructure As Code Part 1
10:34 • Jul 21, 2020 -
Ep. 69 Short Term Crisis Management or a Longer Term Thing
07:20 • Mar 20, 2020 -
Ep. 68 The CTO's Challenge Of Picking The Right Tools For The Job
17:06 • Feb 21, 2020 -
The Gig Economy & Product Roadmaps with Vidya Dinamani, Eric Lawler and Kamel Boulos
56:16 • Sep 10, 2019 -
The Key to Company Culture, with Vidya Dinamani, Benji Koltai and Jerome Bonhomme
50:12 • Jul 31, 2019 -
Growing and Scaling Your Tech Company with Michael Singer and friends
41:27 • Jul 10, 2019 -
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PR and Positive Publicity in Tech with Brian Jones, Alan Leard and Alex Balazs
49:05 • May 14, 2019 -
Two CTOs, one Chief Architect & Dr. Debbie Chen from Hydrostasis
51:43 • May 7, 2019 -
Community Building with CTOs, with Dr. Tony Karrer
39:05 • Apr 30, 2019 -
Innovating as a CTO in Online Advertising with Oded Cohen
54:26 • Apr 23, 2019 -
Disrupting The Healthcare Market with CTO Unmesh Srivastava
47:28 • Apr 16, 2019 -
From Engineer and Developer to CTO with Jesus Lizama
44:54 • Apr 9, 2019 -
The Formula For Evaluating Start-Ups with Sergey Sundukovskiy
50:45 • Apr 3, 2019 -
Why It’s Okay Not to Finish with Evan Phoenix
72:03 • Mar 27, 2019 -
The World of Cloud Services with Jonathan LaCour
72:25 • Mar 20, 2019 -
How CTOs Can Best Utilize Recruiters with Kimberly Owen
56:53 • Mar 13, 2019 -
The Psychology of People in Tech, with Joanie Connell
39:31 • Mar 6, 2019 -
Optimism and Longevity as a CTO in a Healthcare Tech, with Larry Heminger
51:13 • Feb 27, 2019 -
Hybrid CTO of Hardware and Software with Ahn Nguyen
47:20 • Feb 19, 2019 -
Being CTO in the Health Insurance Industry with Alan Leard
60:04 • Feb 13, 2019
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The CTO Podcast
Insights & Strategies for Chief Technology Officers Navigating the C-Suite while Balancing Technical Strategy, Team Management, & Innovation