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When to defend your tech stack — and when to let it speak for itself

Founders and CTOs learn quickly that every investor, advisor, and senior hire has an opinion…

The subtle confidence of founders who trust their stack

You can spot it in a pitch meeting even before a single architectural diagram appears.…

Bobby Zagotta

Bobby is CCO of crypto asset exchange Kraken. Cryptocurrency is slowly going mainstream, and what it’s losing in mystique, it’s making up for in influence. Not long ago, cryptocurrency (better…

The hidden strength behind “ugly but working” early code

Every engineering leader has seen it. An early codebase that looks rough, violates half the style guide, hides TODOs in…

What real CTO maturity looks like at Series A

Series A transforms a CTO from a high velocity builder into a systems level decision maker. The complexity spike is…

CNN Touts ‘5 Things AM’ Morning Briefing

CNN is pushing a concise morning update that promises to keep audiences current before the day begins. The feature, called…

5 signals your MVP is technically stronger than investors assume

Most investors assume MVPs are stitched together with duct tape and optimism. They expect brittle workflows, shallow instrumentation, rough deployment…