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Vijaye Raji to become CTO of Applications with acquisition of Statsig

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176 points tosh | 1 comments | 02 Sep 25 18:18 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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nerdsniper ◴[02 Sep 25 21:20 UTC] No.45109206[source]▶
“CTO” makes sense as a signal that “the buck stops here” for technical issues. They are the highest-ranking authority on technical decisions for their silo, with no one above them (but two CEO’s above them for business decisions)

If Mira Murati (CTO of OpenAI) has authority over their technical decisions, then it’s an odd title. If I was talking with a CTO, I wouldn't expect another CTO to outrank or be able to overrule them.

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1. atty ◴[02 Sep 25 21:42 UTC] No.45109462[source]▶
It would be quite strange indeed for Mira Murati to have a say over their technical decisions, considering she does not work for OpenAI :)