Every skill we learned on this path from developer to CTO defines the Modern CTO. These skills were not handed to us; we had to discover and earn them. We developed skills in: relationships, growth, communicating value, scaling, management, learning how to learn, balancing imbalance, opportunity, focus, identifying white space, understanding failure, processing feedback, making people feel heard, sharing, speaking up, teaching, and developing effective products that bring value to the market.
