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Vijaye Raji to become CTO of Applications with acquisition of Statsig

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176 points tosh | 3 comments | 02 Sep 25 18:18 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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gchadwick ◴[02 Sep 25 19:49 UTC] No.45108141[source]▶
The CTO of applications reporting to CEO of applications (who reports to the actual CEO) is kinda weird? I figure you're either the actual CTO or you're not a C-level exec and should have another title. Just more title inflation I guess. Maybe in same way you see VPs of X everywhere in some organizations we'll be starting to see CEO/CTO of X lower and lower down the org chart.
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1. neom ◴[02 Sep 25 19:57 UTC] No.45108227[source]▶
It's signaling P&L responsibilities. It's not that weird, at least not unheard of at all, just that it's typically done through "EVP" - So EVP Applications, VP of Applications Engineering, etc. - I'm guessing that the line items those "C"s who are not Sam are responsible for, are bigger than most F500 executives, and they're using titles to reflect that reality.
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2. swyx ◴[02 Sep 25 20:24 UTC] No.45108524[source]▶
just gonna point out that Google has done this as well and its not so much title inflation as it is just acknownledging the fact that if the unit they command was a standalone business they would well be worth the CEO/CTO title.
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3. motoxpro ◴[02 Sep 25 22:40 UTC] No.45110044[source]▶
Yep. CEO of YouTube, Google Cloud, etc.