An On-Demand CTO

Linked In,

My last post, in part, touched on the concept of a CTO "on demand".

Before you read the rest of this - the picture is of a Thinkpad (IBM at the time) 770ED - we (James and I) had this laptop. We knew/learned how to get the most out of it.

Then, a decade later, we worked with the most basic tech, through to a ~$1MM AWS bill to process telemetary data.

Since my last my last post, by entire coincidence (to my knowledge, the people I've spoken to have not seen it), I have met with a number of organisation that have had technology related challenges from translating the tech speak of their devs to evaluating and "judging" their tech stack in a number of ways - all of which are looking for that seasoned, experienced insights, on demand, without the full-time price-tag...

The founding team at The Curve have taken more than one software-powered company from zero, to way more than zero (judge it how you will) - 2 - 10 teams / 80 people / all aspects of delivery / managing 75% of the business headcount / millions of pounds, dollars. euros in costbase and revenues / culture challenges / strategy / planning - we can help on all fronts.

What we did then may not solve anything, to be fair, but we can share what challenged us, what we did and the outcome - you can decide how best to respond.

In addition we can help with an ongoing and future facing strategy.

Coming back to the original statement. A CTO role is broad and varied, based on the organisation - some are very hands-on, too many (in my oppinion) are too hands off, with our exeperience we can contribue across the spectrum of needs, connecting less-tech-savvy product owners with techies and supporting hardcore techies wih ways to move forward. The role also evolves with the organisation - mine went from very hands on, to somewhat hands on to seriously hands GTF-off - you can't limit progress with your ego.

Recognising that is not easy.

Furthermore, funding a seasoned CTO is, lets face it, easily 6-figures - having a lifeine to that expertise is no more than 5-figures annually, perhaps less if you are strategic.

Let me know - what do you think, about all of it - tech / economy / other random views - I want to know how we can help more, and I want to know what you all would benefit from!

After all, we have undergone a unique journey that many could benefit from.

Cheers,

Paul