The internal path is probably winding and not guaranteed. Also if you're good at your job as SRE you won't likely become the CTO, you're too valuable as SRE. Th

The internal path is probably winding and not guaranteed. Also if you're good at your job as SRE you won't likely become the CTO, you're too valuable as SRE. The people I've seen do it move around or leave to start their own thing, appoint themselves CTO or CEO, if the business succeeds, they sell the business and then can join some place next time as CTO because they've clearly already been one. If the business fails same thing.