Learnings transitioning from CTO to CEO

Wider scope - think horizontal

Know your own strengths

• You won't be able to do a good job as someone else - be yourself
• Do 360 feedback session

Know your team's strengths

Having a mentor

Different needs in different stages

• From 0 to 8
  • No management
  • People should be able to make many decisions themselves
  • Depending on founder constellation
  • Keep things simple
  • Start to center the team around culture
    • Values
      • Ask people that know your team what they think about them
      • Ask the team what the team thinks is important
    • Vision
    • Mission
• From 9 to 20
  • Framework for goals
  • Focus on inputs rather than outputs (true for most stages)
  • Hire people aligned with team values
    • We'd optimize for diversity