If the devs are reporting directly to the CTO, the CTO should be technical. If not, the CTO should delegate dev leadership to someone who is both technical and

If the devs are reporting directly to the CTO, the CTO should be technical. If not, the CTO should delegate dev leadership to someone who is both technical and business oriented. As my last company grew, the CTO just didn’t have the bandwidth to be technical at work and delegated different responsibilities to the people who could wear both the technical hat and had the soft skills needed. He would just dabble in things on the weekend. His entire family was technical. His wife was a lead data analyst for a telecom and his daughter got an internship as an SWE at BigTech.