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Updated May 11, 2026

Startup CTO Summit: How To Be an Effective CTO

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A video we'd like to share with you presents a speech by Rachit Lohani, Chief Technology and Product Officer, SVP (Engineering and Product) at Paylocity. Rachit talks about roles of CTOs during different product stages and phases.

Please, see our video covering the following key points:

  • How the CTO role evolves based on the state of the company.
  • Key pillars of the role and how the composition evolves.
  • Rule of 3 and 10, why is it important.
  • What can you do to be a successful CTO.

Rachit Lohani is a CTO of a $10B public company running a successful product with a team of love 1500 people growing at 30% + Ran engineering for Atlassian and helped them scale the offering for Jira, confluence and trello. Led the knowledge engineering revolution at Intuit to make Turbotax smarter. Helped scale netflix's engineering and infra.

You can get the full recording of the "Startup CTO Summit 2023. From Code to Culture: The CTO's Journey" here.

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