{"id":3468,"date":"2019-01-22T22:08:50","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T14:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=3468"},"modified":"2019-01-25T10:08:14","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T02:08:14","slug":"tech-teams-and-hiring-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2019\/01\/22\/tech-teams-and-hiring-right","title":{"rendered":"Tech teams and hiring right"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIn the end we couldn\u2019t find a tech team we could trust and that could produce what we asked of them.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>How these words ring so true. This is from a Medium post by <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@johnbiggs\/freemit-is-shutting-down-94f7e8e5113f\">John Biggs<\/a>, now working at The Block.<\/p>\n<p>It is amazing to see what happened, as they hired two tech teams:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cOur first tech team worked mightily on product that worked but was not scalable. Our second tech team was self-interested and the tech did not work.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>They <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/freemit-bitcoin-startup-closes\">raised<\/a> $150k, had 10 employees, two development teams, and over 8,000 beta users, but were unable to deliver functioning technology.<\/p>\n<p>I have no idea if these were outsourced teams, or hired teams (I\u2019ll go with outsourced), but this is a real problem facing many companies, not just those involved in the cryptocurrency space. Sometimes it also has to do with the <em>irrational exuberance<\/em> of the leadership team, directing the tech teams. This is where experience makes sense and pays off\u2026<\/p>\n<p>It makes me think a lot about the offering of the <em>fractional CTO<\/em> (basically a fractional CxO in general). There is a lot to do. A lot of patterns to recognise. A lot of project management. And a lot of understanding on what can and should be delivered in an appropriate timeframe. Something a\u00a0<em>really<\/em> technical co-founder or lead will get right, but something the average founder will miss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn the end we couldn\u2019t find a tech team we could trust and that could produce what we asked of them.\u201d How these words ring so true. This is from a Medium post by John Biggs, now working at The Block. It is amazing to see what happened, as they hired two tech teams: \u201cOur [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[25],"tags":[1947,1946,1837],"class_list":["post-3468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-fractional-cto","tag-fractional-cxo","tag-hiring"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-TW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3468"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3470,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3468\/revisions\/3470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}