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One topic we hear about regularly during our coaching calls is the sometimes delicate relationship between the CTO and the CEO. We were chatting with two members this week suffering almost identical challenges in how to manage their chief executive.
We’ve written in the past about managing the CTO:CEO dynamic but a debate crossed our radar this week that asked a slightly different question but one relevant to the many of you working in early stage companies, “Do Startup Founders Make the Best Startup CEOs?”
The main thrust of the debate is when the the business reaches a certain size should the founder CEO be handing over the reins to a career CEO?
Alongside they look at whether European founders need to be less modest and back themselves to succeed and relevant to this audience, can technical founders make great CEOs?
Heba Bevan, CEO and founder of sensor startup UtterBerry pitted herself against Suranga Chandratillake, general partner at Balderton Capital in an online discussion hosted by the Royal Academy of Engineering Enterprise Hub and available to view here.
There might be some clues and pointers in this debate for the existing and/or future relationships with your CEO.
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We launched CTO Academy Recruitment in September as a natural extension to the end-to-end talent lifecycle service we’re building, a recruitment and careers service that integrates with our online learning, coaching and corporate offers.
We’ve already been engaged by multiple organisations – from UK to USA to Ireland and Benelux – to help place roles such as CTO of a small media business (Ireland) to Interim CTO supporting ambitious founders (US) and a hands on Start Up CTO to get involved in CDEBase (Benelux).
If you’re looking for support in hiring at CTO or CTO -1 level or interested in the roles we have available then please contact [email protected].
We also have a new platform currently in development which will include a live job/careers board so watch this space for further news.
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