Were going to take a breath on the CTO Connection podcast for the next 3-4 weeks. When we first started the podcast, it was a startup CTO podcast. Weve really enjoyed sharing the wisdom and experience of our guests on building and managing engineering

Raffi Krikorian (CTO, Emerson Collective) talks with Laura Edelson (Postdoctoral Researcher at NYU, and Co-Founder of Cyber Security for Democracy Project) about what it looks like to be mission driven in her work.

In part two of my interview with Jason Wodicka, Staff Software Engineer at Karat, we dig deeper into the process of creating predictive, fair, and efficient interview loops. In this episode we start with culture - how do you identify the cultural attribut

Raffi Krikorian (CTO, Emerson Collective) talks with Fred Diego (Co-Founder & CTO, Streetwide) about what it looks like to be mission driven in his work.

Especially in the early days, too many companies still have ad-hoc interview processes or over index on things like resumes which arent super predictive of likely performance and tend to exclude many great candidates. In this episode, I get to chat with

Raffi Krikorian (CTO, Emerson Collective) talks with Adam Kircher (Co-Founder, Sirum) about what it looks like to be mission driven in his work.

I was lucky enough to attend a dinner during which Hilary Mason dropped more wisdom about hiring in one course than many people do in a 90-minute talk. In this week's episode, I get to chat with Hilary, learning how she thinks about screening for jud

Raffi Krikorian (CTO, Emerson Collective) talks with Ariel Ekblaw (CEO, Aurelia) about what it looks like to be mission driven in her work.

Jesse White grew with the company over at OpenNMS, from developer through to hands on CTO. He started with a team of just five, but as the company and the team grew, he founds himself working longer and longer hours until he finally burned out. After taki

Raffi Krikorian (CTO, Emerson Collection) talks with Nellwyn Thomas (CTO, Democratic National Committee) about what it looks like to be mission driven in her work.