Johann Romefort from Seesmic

<p>Hey everyone, this is your host, Gonz, and welcome to the first episode of Startup Conversations: View from the CTO, a collaboration between Seedtable and Circle CI where we sit down with some of the greatest CTOs in Europe to deconstruct how the build and operate high-performing technology teams.</p><p><br></p><p>My guest today is Johann Romefort.</p><p><br>Johann is an investor, consultant and former CTO who specializes in Technical due diligence &amp; corporate innovation. </p><p><br></p><p>Before becoming a freelance consultant, Johann worked as the Managing Director at Techstars for the BSH Future Home Accelerator and, before that — he co-founded Seesmic, a social media account management company, where he acted as CTO building a distributed team of 30+ developers. Seesmic was acquired by Hootsuite in August 2012. </p><p><br></p><p>So it’s no surprise that Johann is a gold mine of information and advice for any and all CTOs trying to innovate today. And in this conversation, we talk about it all: </p><ul> <li>The frustrations that come with transitioning from coder to CTO</li> <li>Why CTOs should try to become coaches to their employees to exponentially increase their productivity</li> <li>Why tapping into your current network is the best way to recruit global, remote talent. </li> <li>What leading a disbrituted technical team of 30+ people looks like.</li> <li>Why leaders should lead with the example, starting with getting enough sleep.</li> <li>The importance of educating your entire team, CEO included, about the technical aspects of your company.</li> <li>And much, much more.</li> </ul><p>I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did.    </p>