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by syncerr 1367 days ago
Titles are just titles. An executive's role changes dramatically as a company scales. CTOs in a 5-person startup are vastly different than CTO at companies with even 100 people (much less 10k or 100k). Great CTOs are capable leaders and will hire more experienced engineers they can rely on.

> One of the key roles of your company’s engineering leadership is to balance working on new features versus maintaining quality and squashing bugs.

Even at companies with 100 engineers, if the CTO is focused on software bugs, there are larger issues at play (i.e., talent density is too low, poor prioritization by product, etc.).

Aditya[0] seems has experience here, but he's likely addressing the market of early-stage startups where he advises.

[0] https://www.linkedin.com/in/adityaagarwal3/