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I completely agree, except in the case of VCs. When you're dealing with partners or customers, "bringing the CTO" in to a conversation sends a message to them
by bps4484 15y ago
I completely agree, except in the case of VCs.
When you're dealing with partners or customers, "bringing the CTO" in to a conversation sends a message to them that you are serious about the partnership. You may be the only person on the tech team, or maybe one of 2 or 3, but it doesn't matter, because the partner or customer may not know that.
In the case of VCs, however, one of their first questions will be "who is your team?". This means that even if you name yourself "CTO, Research Architect, and Head of Product" they'll see you as "member of the technical team".
- kls 15y agoI have dealt with a lot of VC's and my point was that the title CTO does not help you, but the lack of it can hurt you with certain people, even VC's. There are very few people that are going to go oh he's a CTO, let me listen up. But there are a lot of people that will go, he is not an executive let me take a nap until the executives start talking again. Even VC's are not immune to this, there are a lot of people that for whatever reason dismiss people that they view as a lower cast. If anyone is set up to look at people as a lower cast it is VC's. I know there is a lot of VC bias on this site, but believe me there are just as many idiot VC's by percentage as their are middle managers.