Talking about executives

CEO, CTO

Is the CTO role transferrable?

Sample of CTOs from LinkedIn

Average age: 48

48% MS or PhD

56% medium to small firms

Is CTO a glorified individual contributor or an owner of the engineering pipeline?

Models of CTO types

The Anchor

head of product development

The Coordinator

The Evangelist

a public persona

The Visionary

anticipates future change

more like a technical CEO?

The Strategist

Michael Cusumano on industry platforms

Basic Types

Transaction Platforms

App Store

Innovation Platforms

Intel CPU

AWS

Hybrid

lots are moving towards hybrid of the two

How much kindling does your platform need to get the fire started?

Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship calls this the Beachhead Market