How to survive in your startup CTO role
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Starts as a three‑person company building an electrical motor–driven retrofit for strength machines, later adding apps, a cloud platform and a corporate‑wellness product while scaling to ~400 people and four acquisitions. Key specifics: prototype hardware works but required pivots, the canonical data model is rewritten rewrote data model 10 times, early ops choice adopted Kubernetes in 2015 costs many rewrites, built electric motor–driven strength machines. Lessons: prefer boring tech, hire smarter people, avoid polyglot sprawl and delay integrations.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction to egym
- 2:21The early days
- 8:46First traction
- 14:44Growth and scaling
- 21:14Mergers and acquisitions
- 24:51Innovation and future
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