Do You Need A CTO To Get Funding?

“I like you, Brett. And I really like what you’re (company is) doing,” Jack, the Venture Capitalist, said to me. “However, I think I’ll wait until you have a VP Engineering before I invest.”

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In my pitch I had been upfront with Jack that we were looking for a VP Engineering, and, in the interim, I would act as the VP Engineering. However, even though I had an engineering background, and I had managed…