CTO Wisdom with Barnaby Dorfman | Beyond the Program

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CTO Wisdom with Barnaby Dorfman | Beyond the Program

Welcome to CTO Wisdom. In this series, we interview technical leaders who have stepped into executive positions.

Today’s guest host, Eric Brooke, speaks with Barnaby, Dorfman, a visionary technology executive with decades of leadership experience in the tech industry.

In today’s episode, they discuss:

• The importance of learning how to sell ideas in a way your audience understands
• How to lead through layers of abstraction
• The importance of considering the Product Lifecycle in the way you build the Team
• The toughest part of technical leadership
• And much more!

About today’s guest: Barnaby Dorfman is a visionary technology executive with decades of leadership experience in the tech industry. His career spans a broad spectrum of roles, including founding startups, leading innovative projects at Amazon.com, and driving growth as a CTO for several companies. He is currently supporting multiple CEOs with tech strategy and execution. His role at Go1 as CTO was marked by remarkable achievements in building a global team and securing investments from top-tier venture capital firms, contributing significantly to the eLearning platform's hyper-growth. Barnaby's tenure in technology leadership positions, such as his time at Payscale.com and his groundbreaking work at Amazon.com, reflects his passion for creating high-performance teams and innovative products. He is credited with launching the first version of Amazon Marketplace, developing IMDbPro.com, and inventing search technologies used globally. With a deep commitment to fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence, Barnaby continues to influence the tech industry through his advisory roles and speaking engagements, sharing insights drawn from a rich and diverse career. Barnaby graduated magna cum laude from San Francisco State University and has an MBA from the Tuck School at Dartmouth.

About 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 organisations. 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.

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