<story><title>Peloton – A call for action [pdf]</title><url>https://www.blackwellscap.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/BW_Peloton_Presentation_Feb072022.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>onion2k</author><text>As someone who&amp;#x27;s been a CTO at times in the past, I wish I&amp;#x27;d worked with a CEO like that. There are few things worse than having a leadership team who don&amp;#x27;t trust you to deliver the tech that drives the company&amp;#x27;s ideas.</text></item><item><author>rjtavares</author><text>&amp;gt; Q: Is there anything about being CEO that you don’t like, that you like to delegate?&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; A: Finance. Our CFO does 99% of finance. I engage because I want to know how we’re doing. But to say I don’t add value to her operation is an understatement. You can also say the same with technology. Our CTO doesn’t get any help from me. I’ll go sometimes months without talking to our CTO, which as a CEO of a technology company, that’s kind of rare.&lt;p&gt;Wow...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rjtavares</author><text>Of course overly managing the CTO is also bad, but would you really like to &amp;quot;go sometimes months&amp;quot; without talking to the CEO? Especially during a pandemic in which your product becomes the hot new thing?</text></comment>
<story><title>Peloton – A call for action [pdf]</title><url>https://www.blackwellscap.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/BW_Peloton_Presentation_Feb072022.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>onion2k</author><text>As someone who&amp;#x27;s been a CTO at times in the past, I wish I&amp;#x27;d worked with a CEO like that. There are few things worse than having a leadership team who don&amp;#x27;t trust you to deliver the tech that drives the company&amp;#x27;s ideas.</text></item><item><author>rjtavares</author><text>&amp;gt; Q: Is there anything about being CEO that you don’t like, that you like to delegate?&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; A: Finance. Our CFO does 99% of finance. I engage because I want to know how we’re doing. But to say I don’t add value to her operation is an understatement. You can also say the same with technology. Our CTO doesn’t get any help from me. I’ll go sometimes months without talking to our CTO, which as a CEO of a technology company, that’s kind of rare.&lt;p&gt;Wow...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vishnugupta</author><text>&amp;gt;&amp;gt; I’ll go sometimes months without talking to our CTO,&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; ...leadership team who don&amp;#x27;t trust you ....&lt;p&gt;When did &lt;i&gt;talking&lt;/i&gt; come to mean having trust issues!!?</text></comment>