Bart De Waele is een ondernemer pure sang. In 2006 richtte hij samen met Dirk Sabbe het webbureau Netlash op. Ze deden dat evolueren naar Duke & Grace, een full-service marketing agency met 100+ mensen.

Bart kent iets van marketing - en dat is een understatement. Daarom vroeg ik hem wat een CTO moet weten van marketing.

Het resultaat is een boeiend gesprek over de wisselwerking tussen product management en marketing. Veel aspecten passeren de revue. En passant onthult Bart trouwens hét grote geheim van marketing. De moeite van het kijken/luisteren waard!

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