Modern CTO

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Modern CTO Press, Feb 28, 2018 - Business & Economics - 144 pages
Everything you need to know to be a Modern CTO.

Developers are not CTOs, but developers can learn how to be CTOs. In Modern CTO, Joel Beasely provides readers with an in-depth road map on how to successfully navigate the unexplored and jagged transition between these two roles. Drawing from personal experience, Joel gives a refreshing take on the challenges, lessons, and things to avoid on this journey.

Readers will learn how Modern CTOs:

  • Manage deadlines
  • Speak up
  • Know when to abandon ship and build a better one
  • Deal with poor code
  • Avoid getting lost in the product and know what UX mistakes to watch out for
  • Manage people and create momentum
  • ... plus much more

Modern CTO is the ultimate guidebook on how to kick start your career and go from developer to CTO.

About the author (2018)

Joel began writing code at age 13 and sold his first technology at age 18 for one million dollars. In his first three transactions, he developed key relationships and began working with Investors and Chief Technology Officers collaborating and building products in Real Estate, Law, Finance, and Fitness. Today, Joel is a Chief Technologist with clients ranging from start-ups to billion dollar companies. Joel maintains majority ownership of a highly selective app development firm Logic17 and is the host of the Modern CTO Podcast. Joel has a clear vision and passion for modern technology, placing him as one of the most exciting Chief Technology Officers to watch out for.

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