Analysis

March 17, 2023

4 CTOs on what a chief technology officer at a startup actually does

Four CTOs from European startups explain the role, its challenges and the skills you need


Jessica Rawnsley

10 min read

Lethabo Motsoaledi

You can find the first crumbs of the chief technology role in the 1950s and 60s, when a string of large corporations established gleaming research labs out in the sticks (ie. remote from HQ) with the hope of creating hubs of scientists who could dream up genius ideas unconstrained by the rigmarole of daily office life. 

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Lethabo Motsoaledi, chief technology officer at Voyc, posing for a headshot
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Jessica Rawnsley

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