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One previous CTO of mine frequently told us he hadn't written a line of code since the late 1970s, and even then he hadn't done much. He didn't know what an SSH
by blowski 9y ago
One previous CTO of mine frequently told us he hadn't written a line of code since the late 1970s, and even then he hadn't done much. He didn't know what an SSH key was, didn't know the difference between FTP and HTTP, and hadn't heard of MySQL (this was mid 2000s).
He had two excellent abilities: convincing the board to give more money to IT, and hiring good people to spend the money wisely.
- mathattack 9y agoThat's key to mgmt though it can be hard to hire people when you don't have the skills to judge.
- brianwawok 9y agoIts hard to hire pepple you do have the skills to judge.
- dexterdog 9y agoSounds like he was just a technical manager
- hota_mazi 9y agoSounds more like a COO than a CTO.