{"id":1941,"date":"2026-04-30T07:58:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T07:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/2026\/04\/30\/your-startup-doesnt-need-a-cto-you-need-someone-who-ships-code-fast-that-harvard-cs\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T04:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T04:09:08","slug":"your-startup-doesnt-need-a-cto-you-need-someone-who-ships-code-fast-that-harvard-cs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/2026\/04\/30\/your-startup-doesnt-need-a-cto-you-need-someone-who-ships-code-fast-that-harvard-cs\/","title":{"rendered":"Your startup doesn&#8217;t need a CTO. You need someone who ships code fast. That Harvard CS &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your startup doesn&#039;t need a CTO. You need someone who ships code fast. That Harvard CS PhD who built &quot;scalable architecture&quot; at Google will kill your speed. Hire the scrappy dev who built 3 profitable side projects.<\/p>\n<p><small><em>Originally posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/lakamsanik\/status\/2049760163188691111\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">X<\/a><\/em><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your startup doesn&#039;t need a CTO. You need someone who ships code fast. That Harvard CS PhD who built &quot;scalable&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-x-posts","wpcat-19-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2219,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941\/revisions\/2219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}