CTO Wisdom with Charity Majors | Beyond the Program

Welcome to CTO Wisdom. In this series, we interview technical leaders who have stepped into executive positions.

Today’s guest host, Eric Brooke, speaks with Charity Majors, Co-founder and CTO of honeycomb.io

In today’s episode, they discuss:

• How Charity’s career started with a music scholarship and led to being a Founder, CEO and CTO.
• How a love of Command line and firefighting fueled a passion for infrastructure engineering.
• Navigating ADHD and its impact on building a successful career.
• The evolution from engineer to successful manager, director, and executive.
• The value of co-owned decisions and full board transparency at the executive level.
• And more!

About today’s guest: Charity Majors is the co-founder and CTO of honeycomb.io. She pioneered the concept of modern Observability, drawing on her years of experience building and managing massive distributed systems at Parse (acquired by Facebook), Facebook, and Linden Lab building Second Life. She is the co-author of Observability Engineering and Database Reliability Engineering (O'Reilly). She loves free speech, free software and single malt scotch.

About today’s host: Eric Brooke has a rich and varied leadership career - leading up to 21,000 people and Billions in revenue, throughout 14 countries. In their career, they have been an Executive six times (e.g. President, CEO, CMO, and CTO) and a Board member of multiple organisations. Eric has been a CTO of scaling startups from 0 to 120 engineers. As an adviser and mentor, they have helped multiple other startups scale both in Canada and the US. As well as supporting multiple startup incubators such as 1871 in Chicago and TechStars.

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