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What separates a CIO, CTO, and VP of engineering?

29th February 2012

My answer to What separates a CIO, CTO, and VP of engineering? on Quora

Jason Hoffman and Bryan Cantrill, CTO and VP Engineering respectively of Joyent, gave an excellent talk on exactly this subject at the Monki Gras conference in London a couple of weeks ago. Their slides plus a video of their talk are available here: http://lanyrd.com/2012/monkigras...

Posted 29th February 2012 at 1:55 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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