The CTO Podcast

Grooming Engineering Managers with Dalia Havens, VPE at Replicated

01 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Check out 7ctos.comSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Thi...

Shopify's Technical Advisor To The CEO, Duncan Davidson

20 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Duncan and I talk about what the role is of a Technical Advisor to the CEO. We also get into the hiring challenge, how to stay collaborative at such a...

How To Do Skip Level Meetings with Nathan Broslawsky and Scott Graves

09 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

As we add layers of management, we as leaders should try keep our fingers on the pulse of how people down in the organization are feeling. We make ext...

A CTO Implements DEI Early On: A Discussion With Joan Pepin

23 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Joan Pepin is the co-founder and CEO of ZeroWall. She shared her story of coming out as transgender while also being at the forefront of information s...

What metrics do you use? A Discussion With Dave Mangot and Erik Enge

17 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Erik Enge is the Head of Engineering at Postmark, recently acquired by ActiveCampaign and Dave Mangot is the Founder and Principal at Mangoteque. We d...

Be The Best Damn Fractional CTO You Can Be

09 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

You should be as uncomfortable with a fractional CTO running your tech as you would be with a fractional CEO running your business.Etienne talks about...

Integrating New Hires Into Your Engineering Culture with Erin Fusaro and Tracie Hlavka

02 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We had a great chat with Erin, VPE of Chipper Cash and Tracie, CTO at FlyHomes about the challenges we face when onboarding new hires.Check out more a...

Designing a Great Hiring Process to Attract Engineers

25 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Paul and Agustin from CertifiedHiring.com join us in the CTO Studio to talk about what it takes to design a great hiring process for engineers.Check o...

Deconstructing The Hiring Problem with Eric Lackore and David Lormor

18 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Eric is the VP of Technology & Platform Development at Sweet Onion Media Group. David Lormor is the Co-Founder & CTO of Wyndy and together we deconstr...

4 Things The Security Team Wants From Their CTO with Naomi Buckwalter

11 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Naomi Buckwalter visits the CTO Studio with a quick perspective on what the security team needs from their CTO. Naomi is a CISO and founder of Cyberse...

QA with Lu Saenz and Pat Cullen

04 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Lu Saenz, CTO at Flock Freight and Pat Cullen, VP Engineering at Carrot talk about the progression of QA inside our engineering organizations and how ...

Coaching Your Engineers vs. Giving Them Feedback with Etienne de Bruin

28 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Etienne spends a bit of one on one time with you talking about the differences between coaching our people vs. giving them feedback.Check out https://...

Psychological Safety For Your Engineering Team with Kimeshan Naidoo, CTO Unibuddy

21 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Kimeshan Naidoo recently gave a chat in the CTO Studio about how he built Psychological Safety for his engineering teams. He is the CTO and co-founder...

Help The C-Suite Understand Your CTO Role with Nishant Mathew and Jim Catts

14 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How hard can it be to work with the C-Suite when you're a CTO?Check out https://7ctos.com/podcastSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and C...

Emotional Literacy Tools For The CTO, with Patty Leeper facilitating a 7CTOs Forum

09 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Patty Leeper, formerly with NeXT Computer and now Executive Coach talks a group of CTOs through recognizing emotions in ourselves and in others. Patty...

CTO Strategies For Engineering Bonuses And Profit Sharing, with Agustin Lebron and 7CTOs

07 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We have a great conversation lead by Agustin Lebron from CertifiedHiring.com discussing the perils of short sighted bonus plans. But also more importa...

How The CTO Goes About Meeting Their Team's Needs, with Scott Graves and Chris Peterson

01 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We have a chat with 3 CTOs in the room on being aware of their team's needs. And how to meet them. We also talk about our own ability to be vulnerable...

CTOs Building Web3 Startups Using Blockchains and NFTs

21 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We learn from Scott Hoffberg Wilson and Ben Howard, both CTOs building their startups based on blockchain and NFT technologies. We learn about how Nor...

Are Your Needs Being Met In The C-Suite?

18 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

As Brittany Cotton, Head of Coaching at 7CTOs explains, whether you are a CTO, engineer, plant or dog, we all have needs. Key here is to understand th...

CTO Upgrades To OKRs by using GEMs and Sentinels

14 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It's not easy keeping the company aligned on technology initiatives.Kathy Keating and Subbu Rama are in the CTO Studio with Etienne talking about the ...

Engineering Staffing Strategies

08 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We invited a group of CTOs to chat about staffing strategies for engineering teams that we should consider. Many of them aren't new but we talk about ...

The Power of Stillness for the CTO

31 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We had a discussion about how the role of CTO is actually fundamentally changing where we have to consider the fact that the tools we're using process...

New Ideas About The Future of Work

27 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How are you doing you as CTO have responded well to the pandemic. You've got your workforce remote right now, you're dealing with the globalization of...

Engineering Compensation Challenges

25 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Agustin Lebron leads a group think tank with several CTOs on the compensation challenges CTOs are facing in the current hiring climate.Join the CTO St...

What Does Smart Contract Code For A DAO Look Like?

21 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A few CTOs walk through a Smart Contract coded in Solidity. This Smart Contract is for a DAO and Michael Bastos walks us through the basic concepts.Fo...

CTO Relationships with Project Managers

18 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We talk to Matt Ferguson and Kathy Keating about Project Management. We talk about what the role of Project Managers are and how it differs from Progr...

CTO Panel On DAO and Wallet Volatility

13 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We discuss the volatilities around the formations of DAOs and the connecting of wallets to websites. It's still a crazy web3 world out there but we're...

CTO Introduction To DAO

11 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Join us in the CTO Studio this week where we dive into what Decentralized Autonomous Organizations are and how useful they can be for organizing peopl...

CTO And Data Ownership in Web3

06 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Just like we saw the B2B landscape change with SOC2 requirements, what does it look like when our users and customers start demanding a new level of d...

Build Your Own CTO Peer Group So That You Can Succeed

03 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this conversation, Etienne and Britt talk about the importance of having a team of peers that support your growth and can form an alliance with you...

CTO Discussion On Web3 Complexity

31 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We brought in a few CTOs and friends to discuss the current complexities CTOs would face in Data and Identity Management. Check out more at 7ctos.com/...

CTO Under Fire Playbook

28 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What a refreshing re-frame coming from Ashley Raiteri and Kevin Goldsmith for when things go awry in the C-Suite for the CTO. Conversations get conten...

CTO Timing For web3

23 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We assembled a few CTOs and Financial guru's to talk about how the CTO should consider the business viability of web3 and when to start committing to ...

CTO Antidote to Decision Fatigue

20 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Kevin Goldsmith, Ashley Raiteri and Etienne talk about how to handle decision fatigue by leaning on a community of peers. Etienne talks about 7CTOs. ...

CTO Introduction to Web3

17 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we give a high level overview of the blockchain, including Solana, Ethereum and Bitcoin. We talk about dApps and Smart Contracts and w...

How to Deal with Employees that Don’t Show Willingness to Participate in Relationships

19 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Check out the latest CTO Studio episode featuring Jeff Miller, Professional Certified Coach helping leaders to articulate their goals, perceived obsta...

Defining the CTOs Role in Relationships and Company Culture

16 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Check out the latest CTO Studio episode featuring Jeff Miller, Professional Certified Coach helping leaders to articulate their goals, perceived obsta...

Doing Curiosity vs. Being Curiosity

11 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Check out the latest CTO Studio episode featuring Jeff Miller, Professional Certified Coach helping leaders to articulate their goals, perceived obsta...

Curiosity and the Unknown

27 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Joanie B. Connell, Ph.D. is the founder of Flexible Work Solutions, a consulting firm that specializes in leadership assessment, development and reten...

When Curiosity Leads to Questions, But Not All Questions Represent Curiosity

18 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Check out the latest CTO Studio episode featuring Joanie B. Connell, Ph.D. is the founder of Flexible Work Solutions, a consulting firm that specializ...

Curiosity Vs. Being Curious

13 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Check out the latest CTO Studio episode featuring a 3 part series with Joanie B. Connell, Ph.D. who is the founder of Flexible Work Solutions, a consu...

Creating A Agile And Innovative Infrastructure

07 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Check out the latest CTO Studio episode featuring Brant Cooper who is the author of Lean Entrepreneur. Buy Brant's new book Disruption Proof here: h...

Evidence As A Way To Deal With Ideas And Uncertainty

23 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Check out the latest CTO Studio episode featuring Brant Cooper who is the author of Lean Entrepreneur. Buy Brant's new book Disruption Proof here: h...

Communication Flow for Handling Inventions

20 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Check out the latest CTO Studio episode featuring Brant Cooper who is the New York Times bestselling author of The Lean Entrepreneur and CEO of Moves ...

Time Horizons And How We Address Needs

09 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Check out the latest CTO Studio episode featuring Brant Cooper who is the author of Lean Entrepreneur. Buy Brant's new book Disruption Proof here: h...

The Role of the CTO has shifted beyond just Technology

31 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Check out the latest CTO Studio featuring Brant Cooper who is the author of Lean Entrepreneur. Buy Brant's new book Disruption Proof here: https://w...

The two most important risk factors in customer and employment agreements

06 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Check out the latest CTO Studio featuring Meetesh Karia who is CTO & Chief Data Officer at The ZebraSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy a...

When, Why & How to start the Compliance Process

27 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Check out the latest CTO Studio featuring Meetesh Karia who is the CTO & Chief Data Officer at The ZebraSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/priva...

3rd Party & Bad Actor Risk Assessment

15 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Check out the latest CTO Studio featuring Meetesh Karia  CTO & Chief Data Officer at The ZebraSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Ca...

Navigating Compliance Risk as CTO from a startup idea in a garage to $1B+ unicorn

01 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Check out the latest CTO Studio featuring Meetesh Karia who is the CTO & Chief Data Officer at The Zebra. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/pr...

Protecting Your IP in Customer Agreements Part 2

23 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Check out the latest CTO Studio featuring Will Marshall Partner who is a at UBM Law group. This is part 2 of discussing protecting your IP in custom...

Cyber Insurance, Compliance and Cyber Security

16 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Check out the latest episode of the CTO Studio featuring Will Marshall who is a partner at UBM Law group based in San Diego, CA. we discuss the import...

Cyber Insurance, Compliance and Cyber Security

11 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Check out the latest CTO Studio featuring @Beracah Stortvedt. We discuss mitigating risk and the responsibility a CTO has to secure insurances.See Pri...

Intellectual Property

04 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Check out the latest CTO Studio episode featuring Gary Eastman. who is the Registered Patent Attorney based in San Diego and is the managing attorney ...

Gitlab Transparency

27 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Check out the latest CTO Studio featuring Wayne Haber.GitLab Director of Engineering: Leading the growth & fulfillment departments, advising on securi...

Must Have and Nice To Have Patents

21 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Check out the latest CTO Studio featuring Tushar Dadlani Engineering Manager at Standard Cognition and Krijn van der Raadt.See Privacy Policy at http...

Intellectual Property and Patenting Process

11 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Check out the latest CTO Studio featuring Tushar Dadlani Engineering Manager at Standard Cognition and Krijn van der Raadt. Check out https://7ctos.co...

On Degeneracy

04 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Check out the latest CTO Studio featuring Aaron Longwell. Aaron is building the app that hosts all of the Afghanistan Legal System.See Privacy Policy ...

Building the Legal Software System in Afghanistan

27 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Check out the latest CTO Studio featuring Aaron Longwell. Aaron is building the app that hosts all of the Afghanistan Legal System.See Privacy Policy ...

When Simple Concepts Unravel In The C-Suite

20 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Check out the latest CTO Studio featuring Aaron Longwell. Aaron is building the app that hosts all of the Afghanistan Legal System.See Privacy Policy ...

Doing Work As A Means Of Discovery

15 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Check out the latest CTO Studio featuring Aaron Longwell. Aaron is building the app that hosts all of the Afghanistan Legal System.See Privacy Policy ...

Left Brain Right Brain

13 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Check out the latest CTO Studio featuring Aaron Longwell. Aaron is the Director of Engineering, INL Justice Sector Support Program and is building the...

IOT For The Hot Tub Part 2

08 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Check out the latest CTO Studio featuring Jonathan LaCour. Jonathan LaCour is the CTO of Mission. Mission is a AWS Premier Consulting Partner. See ...

Designing IOT For The Hot Tub

06 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Check out the latest CTO Studio featuring Jonathan LaCour. Jonathan LaCour is the CTO of Mission. Mission is a AWS Premier Consulting Partner.See Pr...

Invest In Serverless

01 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Check out the latest CTO Studio featuring Jonathan LaCour. Jonathan LaCour is the CTO of Mission. Mission is a AWS Premier Consulting Partner.See Pr...

What Is Kubernetes?

31 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Check out the latest CTO Studio featuring Jonathan LaCour. Jonathan LaCour is the CTO of Mission. Mission is a AWS Premier Consulting Partner. See ...

What is it that CTOs need to know about Infrastructure trends?

25 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Check out the latest CTO Studio featuring Jonathan LaCour. Jonathan LaCour is the CTO of Mission. Mission is an AWS partner providing DevOps services ...

CTO'ing Mission through Pandemic Lockdowns

23 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Check out the latest CTO Studio episode featuring Johnathan LaCour who is the CTO at Mission.Mission is an AWS partner providing DevOps services and m...

CI/CD Pipelines Have Become Complicated

18 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Matt Ferguson is the CTO at Galley Solutions. We wanted to showcase our fun side with a off the beaten path conversation which we decided to post. Not...

Ep.113 IOT, Micro Services And Data Visualization

16 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Matt Ferguson is the CTO at Galley Solutions. We wanted to showcase our fun side with a off the beaten path conversation which we decided to post. Not...

Ep.112 A Dragonfly Leads To a Conversation About Ecosystems

11 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Matt Ferguson is the CTO at Galley Solutions. We wanted to showcase our fun side with a off the beaten path conversation which we decided to post. Not...

Ep.111 How To Build Your Own Backyard Pond

09 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We wanted to showcase our fun side with a off the beaten path conversations which we decided to post. Not because it's that helpful to CTOs doing thei...

Ep.110 Why We Ran Out Of Toilet paper During Covid

05 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Check out our final episode with in studio guest Casey Kleindienst  where we cover the great mystery of why we ran out of toilet paper during Covid. ...

Ep.109 Managing Expectations Part 2

02 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Check out part 2 of the managing expectations episode from the CTO Studio with our guest Casey Kleindienst who is the Director of Supply Chain Manag...

Ep.108 Managing Expectations Part 1

25 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Check out the latest episode from the CTO Studio with our guest Casey Kleindienst where he discusses how to manage your expectations. This is Part 1 ...

Ep.107 Truth As A Management Style

23 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Check out the latest episode from the CTO Studio with guest Casey Kleindienst where he discusses truth as a management style Check Casey out on Link...

Ep.106 It's Hard To Be The Naysayer As CTO

18 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Check out the latest episode from the CTO Studio with our guest Casey Kleindienst where he discusses why it is hard to but necessary to be the naysay...

Ep.105 Time As A Metric

16 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Check out the latest episode from the CTO Studio with guest Casey Kleindienst who is the Director of Supply Chain Management and is currently a Profe...

Ep.104 Systems Theory: Why Projects Don't Deliver

11 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Casey Kleindienst is the Director of Supply Chain Management. He is currently a Professor at Cal State Fullerton. We love having him in the CTO Studio...

Ep.103 Surviving The Start Up Graveyard By Building A Nimble Company

09 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Daniel Hindi is the CTO of Buildfire. He is also on the Forbes Tech Council. More recently he started a YouTube channel called Cogent Step to help bui...

Ep.102 Being CTO Of A Market Leader

05 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Daniel Hindi is the CTO of Buildfire. He is also on the Forbes Tech Council. More recently he started a YouTube channel called Cogent Step to help bui...

Ep.101 Wrestling with the Changing Rules of The App Stores as CTO

02 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Daniel Hindi is the CTO of Buildfire. He is also on the Forbes Tech Council. More recently he started a YouTube channel called Cogent Step to help bui...

Ep.100 The Conflicted CTO

28 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Daniel Hindi is the CTO of Buildfire. He is also on the Forbes Tech Council. More recently he started a YouTube channel called Cogent Step to help bui...

Ep.99 Technology Playbook Part 4

25 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Emad Georgy is the former CTO of Experian and currently running his own consulting firm.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California...

Ep.98 Tech Playbook Part 3

20 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Emad Georgy is the former CTO of Experian and currently running his own consulting firm.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California...

Ep.97 Tech Playbook Part 2

12 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Emad Georgy is the former CTO of Experian and currently running his own consulting firm. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Californ...

Ep.96 Tech Playbook #1

07 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Emad Georgy is the former CTO of Experian and currently running his own consulting firm. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Californ...

Ep.95 VP of Engineering

28 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Emad Georgy is the former CTO of Experian and currently running his own consulting firm. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Californ...

Ep.94 Emotional Intelligence

22 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Check out our latest CTO Studio episode with our guest Emad Georgy in which he will discuss emotional intelligence.See Privacy Policy at https://art1...

Ep.93 Sprint Reviews

15 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Check out our latest CTO studio episode with Emad Georgy who is the former CTO of Experian and currently running his own consulting firmCheck out: htt...

Ep.92 Consulting To CTO

09 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Emad Georgy is the former CTO of Experian and currently running his own consulting firm.Check out: https://7ctos.comSee Privacy Policy at https://art1...

Ep.91 The Immigrants Complex View of Self

01 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Emad Georgy is the former CTO of Experian and currently running his own consulting firm. We sit down with him today and discuss what its like to be a ...

Ep.90 The 7 Deadly Sins Of Infrastructure As Code Part 3

24 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Igor Mameshin is the CTO of AgileStacks and spent some time with Etienne, from 7CTOs in the CTO Studio.Check out: https://www.agilestacks.com/blog/av...

Ep.89 The 7 Deadly Sins Of Infrastructure As Code

17 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Igor Mameshin is the CTO of AgileStacks and spent some time with Etienne, from 7CTOs in the CTO Studio.Check out: https://www.agilestacks.com/blog/av...

Ep.88 The Seven Deadly Sins Of Infrastructure As Code

12 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Igor Mameshin is the CTO of AgileStacks and spent some time with Etienne, from 7CTOs in the CTO Studio.Check out: https://www.agilestacks.com/blog/av...

Ep.87 Agilestacks

03 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Igor Mameshin is the CTO of AgileStacks and spent some time with Etienne, from 7CTOs in the CTO Studio.Check out: https://www.agilestacks.com/blog/av...

Ep.86 Black Boxes

30 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Ted Harrington is the Executive Partner of one of the world’s leading security research & consulting firms -- Independent Security Evaluators (ISE)....

Ep.85 Security Penetration

20 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Ted Harrington is the Executive Partner of one of the world’s leading security research & consulting firms -- Independent Security Evaluators (ISE)....

Ep.84 Network Layers

15 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Ted Harrington is the Executive Partner of one of the world’s leading security research & consulting firms -- Independent Security Evaluators (ISE)....

Ep.83 The Blockchain Bandit

13 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Ted Harrington is the Executive Partner of one of the world’s leading security research & consulting firms -- Independent Security Evaluators (ISE)....