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Podcast: The CTO Show with Mehmet Gonullu
Episode: #363 Maintaining the North Star from a CTO Perspective: Francis Lacoste on the Inner Game of Leadership
Description: In this episode of The CTO Show with Mehmet, we have a thought-provoking conversation with Francis Lacoste, an executive coach specializing in CTOs and VPs of engineering. Francis shares his journey from being a software engineer to taking on leadership roles at Salesforce and Heroku, and now coaching executives in scaling startups. He delves into the challenges faced by startups as they grow, particularly the transition from a small team to a larger organization. Francis highlights the identity shift that technical co-founders experience as they move from product builders to organizational leaders, emphasizing the importance of understanding and navigating...