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How do you find the right CTO? Or should I just learn programming? (alien.top)

submitted 2 years ago by Donate2changeworld@alien.top to c/entrepreneur@indiehackers.space

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I’m an entrepreneur and I always find myself with ideas that I think are powerful products. I deep dive into every aspect before I start. Since I’m not a technical founder but more of a visionary founder I find myself having to find the better half else where. Most of the time it’s difficult. Do you guys think I should learn programming so I can build my dreams faster? A lot of the time they are just very simple web apps.

Any guidance would help.

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[–] _supernoob@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

No. You should not add coding/programming to your responsibilities if you can delegate that responsibility to other people or teams.

In terms of picking the CTOs, I always suffered when working with CTOs and project managers that are not technical. So business skills of a CTO is important but having good technical understand and up ti date perspective is equally important.

Don’t get me wrong, I am not expecting CTOs to review code as a responsibility but they should their past experience should allow them to dive deep while their management skills keep them afloat at a higher altitude to observe the progress. Only then they can see the big picture and also manage the expectations of the other C-levels.

A CTO that doesn’t understand the technical challenges is not capable to do such things.