I don't know any of the companies or people mentioned in this. Does anyone else here? Before I sink any time into reading this: I have an innate suspicion of "chief technology officers" to begin with; is this worth reading?
I don't see anything in it that will be new to anyone with industry experience who has made it to the level of entry level engineering management.
The target audience seems to be "CTO"s who inherit the title by being technical co-founders at startups with little to no professional experience beforehand.
My first reaction was to ask: who is the author?I wish it was someone with good CTO credentials under their, but it doesn't tell me anything.
I've been cto at 3 companies over the last 10 years, and maybe I'm getting old and impatient, but I think as others say, this feels more of a book for the just-graduated CTO that finds himself in the role as a cofounder (I do technical advising to those) . In my experience the more you've been in the role, the more specific info you look for, like the Accelerate book.
