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By Adam Horner
Join Adam Horner, a CTO with over 30 years in the tech industry, on The CTO Playbook — the podcast dedicated to helping CTOs excel.
Latest episode
54 min
Topics
Managing engineering organizations, teams, delivery, architecture, and technical leadership.
Hiring, career development, skills, workplace practice, and professional progression in technology.
Technology-company strategy, business models, operations, competition, and market structure.
Formats
Host-led conversation where a guest supplies most of the subject matter.
Detailed technical, architectural, or research-oriented examination.
Audience level
Assumes basic technology literacy and familiarity with common products, roles, and terminology.
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Quantum computing may not be breaking your security today, but the decisions you make now could determine how exposed your organization is when it does. Conor Deegan explains why CTOs need to start preparing before Q Day arrives.
Twenty years at one company should have made my guest predictable, and that is exactly the trap he built a method to escape. Coaching, podcast, and community to help you lead with clarity, confidence, and strategic impact.
Most CTOs think adopting AI means picking the right tools, but Sumeet argues the real work is closing the accountability gap between agents and engineers. Coaching, podcast, and community to help you lead with clarity, confidence, and strategic impact.
Ask a CTO which executive relationship matters most, and they'll name the CEO, but my guest today would send you to the CFO instead. Coaching, podcast, and community to help you lead with clarity, confidence, and strategic impact.
I nearly turned my own summer into the cautionary tale. The thing that saved me was a last-minute week in the Swedish mountains. Coaching, podcast, and community to help you lead with clarity, confidence, and strategic impact.
One CTO spent two weeks tearing frontier models out and ended up back where they started. Another spent a few days building a tested escape route for what actually mattered. Coaching, podcast, and community to help you lead with clarity, confidence, and strategic impact.
A founder went from zero to $10 million ARR in six months with six engineers and fifty agents, and the gap between idea and shipped feature was nine hours. Coaching, podcast, and community to help you lead with clarity, confidence, and strategic impact.
Shielding your team from context isn't protection, it's a subtle underestimation of the people you hired for their judgment. Coaching, podcast, and community to help you lead with clarity, confidence, and strategic impact. The thing most technical leaders are proudest of is the same thing slowly cracking them in half.
Most CTOs chase value creation. Jaco Vermeulen says the real job is preserving it first. Coaching, podcast, and community to help you lead with clarity, confidence, and strategic impact. Boards across the mid-market are running AI pilots that return nothing, and revenue is being booked long before it's ever realised.
Duri's father holds more than 100 patents, filed his latest one at 96, and gave him a one-line philosophy that now drives how his teams approach every problem: most people don't try. Coaching, podcast, and community to help you lead with clarity, confidence, and strategic impact.