Common Mistakes When Hiring Your First Developer and Choosing a Technology Stack
🎙 We interviewed Joe Cohen, co-founder and CTO of Draftea, about:
0:00 Intro
1:58 How Joe entered the fascinating world of startups
5:11 Lessons from working with Guillermo Rauch
14:05 How to be a good CTO
21:58 How and when to find your first CTO
27:13 Mistakes to avoid when looking for a CTO
32:15 How to choose a technology stack
43:03 Applied Artificial Intelligence
46:16 Differences between tech teams in Latin America and Silicon Valley
51:11 How to recruit 10x developers
58:59 The future of the CTO role
👤 Joe Cohen is co-founder and CTO of Draftea, a Daily Fantasy Sports platform, which has raised over $20 million from investors such as Sequoia, Kaszek Ventures, and athletes like Cristiano Ronaldo and Pau Gasol. Previously, Joe was Director of Engineering at Vercel from its early stages until it became a unicorn.
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