How to become a CTO?

Tech lead at 2 years exp 😂

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Imagine working for 2 yoe tech lead

I can understand why people with 2-3 years can become tech leads at early stage startups. You may have sufficient context as well as highly tuned skills to the tech stack of the product you built. Be warned though - your skills probably won't scale to the required tech lead skills at other places where you haven't built the product and team from day 0.

A CTO is an executive position and a managerial position. Being promoted to CTO as a technical lead is going to be very challenging as you'll likely be missing the required managerial and executive skills.

The best way to become a CTO quickly is to found your own startup and take up the role. Hopefully, your managerial skills would scale as your startup team scales and you'll become the perfect CTO. Be warned though - most early career cofounder CTOs are usually replaced by the board when the startup reaches series B or so. You might have to later settle for a director or senior EM role.

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By gaining 12 more years experience.

Easiest way : Start your own startup (co-founding) and become one. (All large number for non-tech founders are always on lookout for techies, find someone like that and build a startup)
The tough way: Deal with a lot of office politics, favouritism and use you real skills and understanding to standalone in any organization.
(You already worked in a early stage startup, I guess you already know; CTO is not awarded to the best coder, it is a managerial leadership role)

Best of luck

If things go like this, Looks like my son with zero experience in corporate and 6 months old can be a manager in 2 days.

80% luck, 20% hard work and skill.

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