Johann Romefort from Seesmic

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.

My guest today is Johann Romefort.

Johann is an investor, consultant and former CTO who specializes in Technical due diligence & corporate innovation. 

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. 

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: 

The frustrations that come with transitioning from coder to CTOWhy CTOs should try to become coaches to their employees to exponentially increase their productivityWhy tapping into your current network is the best way to recruit global, remote talent. What leading a disbrituted technical team of 30+ people looks like.Why leaders should lead with the example, starting with getting enough sleep.The importance of educating your entire team, CEO included, about the technical aspects of your company.And much, much more.

I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did.