Should You Hire a Fractional CTO?
Oshri Cohen joins Laura Milstein and Kevin Albert on That Tech Pod to unpack what a fractional CTO actually is, how the job compares to a full-time seat, and whether a C-suite role can be vended out at all.
That Tech Pod
On That Tech Pod, hosts Laura Milstein and Kevin Albert put the question directly to Oshri Cohen: should you hire a fractional CTO? It's a fair challenge. The model still sounds odd to a lot of founders, so the episode starts at the beginning and defines what the role actually is.
Oshri lays out how a fractional CTO differs from a full-time one. The accountability is the same; the hours and the price tag are a fraction. From there the conversation gets into the harder question of whether you can vend out a C-suite seat at all, and where doing so makes sense for a company that needs senior technology leadership before it can justify the full-time hire.
A useful listen for anyone weighing that hire right now.
What's covered
- What a fractional CTO actually is, and how the role differs from a full-time CTO
- Whether a company can, or should, vend out its C-suite
- How to think about the fractional model when hiring technology leadership
