Storytelling · Advice
Here's a story about Steve, the CTO of a Series-B startup called SaaSCo. It's a story I've heard a dozen times before. To me, this story is now a fable, a cautionary tale.
Advice
The build vs buy debate comes up a lot on tech teams. In short, this debate is about whether the team should build a piece of functionality in-house or buy a third-party service, API, or library to fulfill the product need. Lots of considerations factor in to the debate, but
Advice
Bad things happen, and sometimes crises are unavoidable. I've spent time as an automotive engineer, a software engineer, a CTO and a startup founder, so I've had lots of opportunities to deal with crises. I've discovered that crisis management is a learnable and teachable skill.
