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YC Co-Founder Matching – better profiles

Exactly 4 months ago I published a writeup of my experiences in the Y-Combinator CoFounder matching programme – meeting 30 potential co-founders in 2 months – and comparing it to the UK’s Entrepreneur First. I haven’t founded a company yet,…

Unpacking the “Startup CTO”

There are 4 necessary parts of a proto-CTO: Founder, CTO, VPE, Engineer CTO doesn’t really exist as a role until SeriesB – but without someone performing the proto-CTO role the company probably won’t survive to reach that stage I often…

1 year of running London CTO meetups

A year ago I got together with Josh Wohle and started a monthly meetup for London-based CTOs (and CTOs-to-be). The short version: it was born from frustration that London’s meetups hadn’t really recovered after the COVID-19 pandemic, and while there…