Programming, Business, and Becoming the Fractional CTO
From self-taught developer to fractional CTO: the path through programming and business that led to the work Oshri Cohen does today.
On Exponential Growth (Episode 44), Oshri Cohen tells the long-form story behind the title: a self-taught developer who worked through nearly every role in a technical organization on the way to CTO — and ultimately to building a fractional and interim CTO practice.
He talks through the mindset shift from writing code to driving business outcomes, why he leads with "product and business first, technology in service of it," and how that lens reshapes the way he builds teams and rescues troubled software.
A useful listen for engineers wondering how a technical career compounds into leadership — and for founders trying to understand how a fractional CTO actually thinks.
What's covered
- How a self-taught developer grows into a CTO, one role at a time
- The shift from writing code to owning business outcomes
- "Product and business first, technology in service of it"
- Why the fractional model fits the way Oshri likes to work
