Opinion

February 6, 2023

How to be a DIY CTO

How do you single-handedly build an MVP when you can’t write a single line of code? Simple. Do-it-yourself with no-code tools


Eissra Eltom

5 min read

Eissra Eltom, CEO and cofounder of Verve

As a former consultant and business school graduate, I’d built countless slide decks and models but, sadly, I'd never written a line of code — let alone built a product — when I founded a startup. 

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A screenshot of the Verve interface
An example of the Verve interface
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