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You can be the chief officer of a 1 person organization, or a 100,000 organization. Or pick another dimension such as SLOC, number of projects/products, teams, DAU, etc.

CTO has a different meaning at different levels of scale.

With a headcount of around 250 employees, you can still work directly on implementation. But with a headcount of 100,000, it doesn't make sense.



I agree. As a company grows, the CTO must shift from coder to leader, architect, and culture-shaper.




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