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Jan 2021
14m 32s

Ep.100 The Conflicted CTO

Insights & Strategies for Chief Technology Officers Navigating the C-Suite while Balancing Technical Strategy, Team Management, & Innovation
About this episode
Daniel Hindi is the CTO of Buildfire. He is also on the Forbes Tech Council. More recently he started a YouTube channel called Cogent Step to help build the relationship between founders and their technology people.
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