70: A Better Way to Explain Your Platform to Non-Technical Executives
Ever tried to explain a technical decision and felt the room silently check out?
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Why do brilliant ideas so often get lost in translation? There is one simple metaphor that changes everything. In this episode, I share the story of a growth-stage CTO who could see a scale crisis coming, but couldn’t get his co-founders to see it too. It took one unexpected image, a floating city at sea…
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