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Hiring a CTO? Heres What Founders and Investors Get Wrong | The Fintech Times

2025-05-15 02:45:04| Spiritual Career Counseling

Hiring the right CTO can make or break a company especially in VC or PE-backed businesses where the pressure to scale quickly is real and mis-hires are costly. Yet too often, the process is rushed, misjudged or handed off without the proper structure in place.To get to the heart of what works (and what doesnt), I spoke with Gareth Thomas, previously CTO at segmentation SaaS platform PeakData, and Geraldine Butler-Wright, a seasoned chief people and culture officer with experience at PayPal and various successful scaleups. Combined with our extensive executive search experience from 20 years helping dozens of growth-stage companies build out senior tech teams.From job descriptions that actually attract the right candidates, to avoiding the CTO unicorn trap here are eight lessons for hiring a CTO that can actually deliver at your stage of growth.1 The job description what to include?A great job description should fit onto one page and answer four things:What is the job and how m...


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