CTO Wisdom with Joel Schlundt | Beyond the ProgramWelcome to CTO Wisdom. In this series, we interview technical leaders who have stepped into executive positions.Today’s guest host, Eric Brooke, speaks with Joel Schlundt, CTO at TextUs, a business texting software.In today’s episode, they discuss some of the key learnings from Joel’s career journey to becoming a CTO:Giving your managers room and space to take risks and be there to support them as they need itCreating empathy between you and your other partners throughout the business, to create strong business valueBeing a force multiplier for all parts of the business not just Engineering and ProductBalancing the needs of product delivery, platform, and peopleAbout today’s host: Eric Brooke has a rich and varied leadership career - leading up to 21,000 people and Billions in revenue, throughout 14 countries. In their career, they have been an Executive six times (e.g. President, CEO, CMO, and CTO) and a Board member of multiple organizations. Eric has been a CTO of scaling startups from 0 to 120 engineers. As an adviser and mentor, they have helped multiple other startups scale both in Canada and the US. As well as supporting multiple startup incubators such as 1871 in Chicago and TechStars.Sign-Up for the Weekly hatchpad Newsletter: https://www.myhatchpad.com/newsletter/

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