Mina Boström Nakicenovic is the CTO of Flightradar24, a company that tracks aviation traffic throughout the world. I'm sure you've stumbled upon their work some time.

In this episode of the SoftwareCaptains podcast, Mina gives her vision of the role of CTO. What skills does a good CTO need? What are his or her responsibilities? And how is this different from being a lead developer? What is technical and what is business leadership and how they intersect? 

We touch a lot of subjects every CTO should be aware of: vision, strategy, innovation, technical debt, career paths, ... Even history and philosophy, as optional subjects.
It's just too much to list everything here. Go on and listen to the podcast!

Martin Van Aken has been a CTO for a couple of years and has make a very conscious decision to become an Individual Contributor again. I had a great chat with him about his career and his choices.

These are some of the topics we discussed:

* how does one become a CTO?
* what are important skills for a CTO?
* what are the challenges of being a CTO?
* what are the challenges of becoming an IC after having been a CTO?
* can you be happy by being an IC after you have been a CTO?
* why is the job of CTO at a startup ephemeral?
* why is it important to be part of a network of CTOs?

Martin gives some very valuable insights if you're a CTO or consider becoming one. Make sure to listen to this episode!

By the way, if you want to be part of a network of CTOs, you're welcome at https://ctoclub.be 

Remote werken heeft zijn uitdagingen - mensen remote in het buitenland aannemen heeft er nog veel meer!

Sinds 8 jaar is Hugo Hemmen daarmee bezig. Met zijn bedrijf Gapstars helpt hij bedrijven in Nederland en België om mensen in het buitenland te zoeken en efficiënt met hen samen te werken. Dat leek me interessant genoeg om eens met Hugo te praten.

Ik stelde hem veel vragen. Wat is het beste moment om medewerkers in het buitenland te beginnen zoeken? Op welke manier doe je dat? Hoe ga je om met cultuurverschillen? Hoe houdt je remote mensen betrokken bij je bedrijf? Hoe deel je lokale en remote teams in?

Hugo legt het allemaal rustig uit in deze aflevering van de SoftwareCaptains podcast. 

Veel luisterplezier!