The daily challenges of CTOs and tech leads explained around a pizza.https://cto.pizza/https://cto.pizza/a-non-hierarchical-organization-where-everybody-can-be-heard-charles-gorintin-alan-eu-deedb822bb83/https://cto.pizza/a-non-hierarchical-organization-where-everybody-can-be-heard-charles-gorintin-alan-eu-deedb822bb83/Alan is the first health insurance of the digital era in France, that raised 12M€ in less than a year of existenceSun, 14 May 2017 20:45:38 GMThttps://cto.pizza/autonomy-through-tangible-objectives-cyril-morcrette-mappy-com-dc64a81e1e8e/https://cto.pizza/autonomy-through-tangible-objectives-cyril-morcrette-mappy-com-dc64a81e1e8e/Mappy is a 75 employees company part from a big corporation (SoLocal Group) and with a lot of history. Cyril manages 65 people.Fri, 17 Nov 2017 09:29:10 GMThttps://cto.pizza/be-pragmatic-antoine-porte-lydia-ed796e5a87d3/https://cto.pizza/be-pragmatic-antoine-porte-lydia-ed796e5a87d3/Lydia is a mobile payment platform that raised 13M$ and has 40 employees — Antoine is the co-founder and CTOThu, 07 Dec 2017 16:29:38 GMThttps://cto.pizza/better-ask-for-forgiveness-than-for-permission-matthieu-blumberg-criteo-d0939024cffb/https://cto.pizza/better-ask-for-forgiveness-than-for-permission-matthieu-blumberg-criteo-d0939024cffb/Criteo is a company with fulgurant growth that went through an IPO in 2013 and has about 2600 employeesThu, 21 Sep 2017 08:31:41 GMThttps://cto.pizza/cto-pizza-at-web2day-in-nantes-on-june-14th-6344cf0cface/https://cto.pizza/cto-pizza-at-web2day-in-nantes-on-june-14th-6344cf0cface/It’s been a little while since I posted here as I’ve had to slow down a bit on the pizzas, but we’ll be back to full speed soon.Tue, 29 May 2018 12:32:29 GMThttps://cto.pizza/cto-pizza-live-3-lets-talk-recruitment-1fcf24dff3db/https://cto.pizza/cto-pizza-live-3-lets-talk-recruitment-1fcf24dff3db/CTO Pizza is coming back with a live event in March at NUMA Paris.Mon, 19 Feb 2018 11:21:43 GMThttps://cto.pizza/cto-pizza-live-session-1-at-numa-paris-1fed39691c98/https://cto.pizza/cto-pizza-live-session-1-at-numa-paris-1fed39691c98/Early October at NUMA Paris, a live session of CTO Pizza with great CTOs on stage and free pizza!Mon, 25 Sep 2017 13:54:34 GMThttps://cto.pizza/cto-pizza-live-session-2-at-numa-paris-2cd840253e5/https://cto.pizza/cto-pizza-live-session-2-at-numa-paris-2cd840253e5/Dear all,Wed, 15 Nov 2017 13:54:48 GMThttps://cto.pizza/cto-pizza-live-session-4-15-11-e6d68a72adea/https://cto.pizza/cto-pizza-live-session-4-15-11-e6d68a72adea/We are BACK with a live event on November 15th !Mon, 29 Oct 2018 11:27:06 GMThttps://cto.pizza/dont-solve-problems-you-don-t-have-justin-ziegler-priceminister-6ab8aadc6dcc/https://cto.pizza/dont-solve-problems-you-don-t-have-justin-ziegler-priceminister-6ab8aadc6dcc/Justin Ziegler is the tech founder of Priceminister, a marketplace that was sold to Rakuten for 250M euros in 2010Thu, 25 Jan 2018 11:10:58 GMThttps://cto.pizza/embracing-change-romain-kuzniak-openclassrooms-8256cb220b53/https://cto.pizza/embracing-change-romain-kuzniak-openclassrooms-8256cb220b53/OpenClassrooms is a 60+ employees online learning platform with a tech team of 14Mon, 13 Feb 2017 14:17:26 GMThttps://cto.pizza/going-from-a-retail-business-to-a-global-tech-company-julien-mangeard-vente-privee-283a0fa333/https://cto.pizza/going-from-a-retail-business-to-a-global-tech-company-julien-mangeard-vente-privee-283a0fa333/vente-privee.com is a 4500+ retail business that is reorganizing itself to become a global tech leader and compete with the GAFATue, 27 Jun 2017 09:27:36 GMThttps://cto.pizza/good-developers-need-to-feel-challenged-benjamin-netter-lendix-b75f0858bfc9/https://cto.pizza/good-developers-need-to-feel-challenged-benjamin-netter-lendix-b75f0858bfc9/Lendix is a crowlending company of about 60 employees that raised 27M$ in fundingTue, 03 Oct 2017 09:24:35 GMThttps://cto.pizza/hypotheses-need-to-be-tested-jean-lebrument-brigad-co-c35eedf6f010/https://cto.pizza/hypotheses-need-to-be-tested-jean-lebrument-brigad-co-c35eedf6f010/I studied at Epitech and worked in a bunch of startups. I met Florent about 5 years ago, while I was managing a tech team. I moved to California for 7 months, started a company in the music industry bMon, 03 Sep 2018 14:22:07 GMThttps://cto.pizza/i-had-never-met-my-cofounder-in-real-life-when-we-started-anil-arvindam-ideaphora-da4933d7f6c0/https://cto.pizza/i-had-never-met-my-cofounder-in-real-life-when-we-started-anil-arvindam-ideaphora-da4933d7f6c0/Ideaphora is a 4 years old, 5 people EdTech startup based in Portland (USA) and Bengalore (India) that teaches India kids how to learnTue, 06 Jun 2017 11:23:10 GMThttps://cto.pizza/i-had-to-jump-on-the-train-at-full-speed-valentin-baudot-youscribe-fd4432c8b33d/https://cto.pizza/i-had-to-jump-on-the-train-at-full-speed-valentin-baudot-youscribe-fd4432c8b33d/Youscribe is a 10 people company that raised 4.5M$, and Valentin is their brand new CTOThu, 06 Jul 2017 09:37:08 GMThttps://cto.pizza/i-only-hire-people-smarter-than-me-nicolas-baron-meilleursagents-com-a4259f90f472/https://cto.pizza/i-only-hire-people-smarter-than-me-nicolas-baron-meilleursagents-com-a4259f90f472/MeilleursAgents is a price estimation tool for real estate, that employs 130 people and just raised 7M in Series BThu, 02 Mar 2017 08:51:13 GMThttps://cto.pizza/i-started-on-a-friday-morning-and-had-to-fix-the-production-database-in-the-afternoon-jean-louis-b3f6ed0dbf4a/https://cto.pizza/i-started-on-a-friday-morning-and-had-to-fix-the-production-database-in-the-afternoon-jean-louis-b3f6ed0dbf4a/Jean-Louis is the Director of infrastructure at leboncoin, the biggest classifieds site in France with 26M unique visitors per month.Mon, 04 Sep 2017 12:14:46 GMThttps://cto.pizza/it-all-started-with-an-sms-service-romain-abidonn-creme-de-la-creme-1e49a97367f8/https://cto.pizza/it-all-started-with-an-sms-service-romain-abidonn-creme-de-la-creme-1e49a97367f8/Crème de la Crème is a 19 people startup founded in 2015 that raised 1M€ and matches top schools students with freelance projectsWed, 26 Apr 2017 10:11:40 GMThttps://cto.pizza/its-just-more-of-everything-stan-sarr-koober-5c8aa68d2b31/https://cto.pizza/its-just-more-of-everything-stan-sarr-koober-5c8aa68d2b31/Challenges faced by the CTO of a 2 year old & 8 people startup that summarizes books into 20 min readsThu, 09 Feb 2017 13:33:16 GMThttps://cto.pizza/keep-moving-while-rebuilding-the-architecture-thomas-seres-pandacraft-com-62e4216c6d48/https://cto.pizza/keep-moving-while-rebuilding-the-architecture-thomas-seres-pandacraft-com-62e4216c6d48/Pandacraft is a 25 people company that raised 3.6M$ to sell educational kits for kidsWed, 21 Jun 2017 09:19:19 GMThttps://cto.pizza/learn-how-to-learn-pascal-corpet-bayes-impact-7f4920487e7/https://cto.pizza/learn-how-to-learn-pascal-corpet-bayes-impact-7f4920487e7/Bayes Impact is a social NGO with 21 people in France and the US, using big data to make an impactFri, 10 Nov 2017 09:38:50 GMThttps://cto.pizza/looks-like-were-missing-the-abstract-class-16168ef173f1/https://cto.pizza/looks-like-were-missing-the-abstract-class-16168ef173f1/Looks like we’re missing the Abstract classTue, 16 May 2017 10:30:53 GMThttps://cto.pizza/make-your-employees-proud-of-their-work-jerome-nadaud-sensiolabs-b493e0c1914/https://cto.pizza/make-your-employees-proud-of-their-work-jerome-nadaud-sensiolabs-b493e0c1914/I don’t have a tech background. I studied biology in Toulouse and lived in Spain for about 25 years before moving to France to work as I knew there weren’t a lot of options for work if I stayed in SpaMon, 05 Mar 2018 10:31:28 GMThttps://cto.pizza/managing-risks-linked-to-company-growth-marc-g-gauthier-drivy-com-5ee3c703bb77/https://cto.pizza/managing-risks-linked-to-company-growth-marc-g-gauthier-drivy-com-5ee3c703bb77/Drivy is the leading car rental marketplace in Europe, raised 40+M$ and has 90+ employeesTue, 18 Apr 2017 17:18:02 GMThttps://cto.pizza/modularity-is-key-frederic-rivain-dashlane-5e7f2832ea48/https://cto.pizza/modularity-is-key-frederic-rivain-dashlane-5e7f2832ea48/Dashlane is one of the leading password managers in the world, and raised 52.5M$ with a team of 110Thu, 28 Sep 2017 08:00:16 GMThttps://cto.pizza/never-lower-the-bar-nicolas-de-nayer-doctolib-fr-4e8f9cf22308/https://cto.pizza/never-lower-the-bar-nicolas-de-nayer-doctolib-fr-4e8f9cf22308/Doctolib is a 300+ employees online booking platform for doctors that raised 50M+ eurosTue, 28 Mar 2017 16:34:29 GMThttps://cto.pizza/not-one-cto-is-like-the-others-mario-matar-monbanquet-fr-1e197728cced/https://cto.pizza/not-one-cto-is-like-the-others-mario-matar-monbanquet-fr-1e197728cced/I studied computer science at UPMC (Paris 6), and then worked for 2 years at Sopra Steria on projects for the police and social security. They were big projects with a massive architecture, so very inTue, 02 Apr 2019 10:20:39 GMThttps://cto.pizza/our-business-model-can-change-every-3-months-nicolas-silberman-wellcut-20minutes-mediapart-f99d17318d66/https://cto.pizza/our-business-model-can-change-every-3-months-nicolas-silberman-wellcut-20minutes-mediapart-f99d17318d66/Nicolas was the CTO of two main french media sites (20minutes and Mediapart) and has now founded Wellcut.tv and CTO PartnersMon, 29 May 2017 12:19:16 GMThttps://cto.pizza/pizza-with-emmanuel-derozin-cto-ma-coiffeuse-afro-2c834dc7ad32/https://cto.pizza/pizza-with-emmanuel-derozin-cto-ma-coiffeuse-afro-2c834dc7ad32/Challenges faced by the CTO of a 4 people startup founded in 2016Wed, 25 Jan 2017 08:02:00 GMThttps://cto.pizza/pizza-with-nicolas-cosme-cto-at-tripndrive-e303be3f8fa8/https://cto.pizza/pizza-with-nicolas-cosme-cto-at-tripndrive-e303be3f8fa8/The job of Nicolas, CTO of a 15 people startup that rents out cars on a Java Spring Boot stackWed, 01 Feb 2017 10:21:52 GMThttps://cto.pizza/professional-love-at-first-sight-julien-balmont-zenchef-a2b99f78603b/https://cto.pizza/professional-love-at-first-sight-julien-balmont-zenchef-a2b99f78603b/Zenchef is a marketing and booking system for restaurants, that raised 8.5M€ and has 44 employeesWed, 10 May 2017 10:01:50 GMThttps://cto.pizza/programming-translates-concepts-to-reality-laurent-cerveau-zenly-ae249eda1126/https://cto.pizza/programming-translates-concepts-to-reality-laurent-cerveau-zenly-ae249eda1126/Zenly is the social map app beloved by millions of teens around the globe and got acquired by Snapchat in 2017. Laurent Cerveau is theirWed, 17 Jan 2018 10:43:12 GMThttps://cto.pizza/switching-markets-because-of-regulations-lars-klein-wingly-io-836cc6bf2838/https://cto.pizza/switching-markets-because-of-regulations-lars-klein-wingly-io-836cc6bf2838/Wingly is an 8 people innovative flight sharing platform that connects travelers and hobby pilotsWed, 12 Apr 2017 15:25:30 GMThttps://cto.pizza/the-cto-role-as-multifaceted-as-a-pinapple-pizza-4d17f33511ed/https://cto.pizza/the-cto-role-as-multifaceted-as-a-pinapple-pizza-4d17f33511ed/I am currently the CTO of NUMA, one of the big players in the startup scene in Europe. The role makes me meet a lot of bright people, someWed, 18 Jan 2017 17:50:55 GMThttps://cto.pizza/the-product-is-as-good-as-your-team-herve-lourdin-videdressing-com-d7259a2943e6/https://cto.pizza/the-product-is-as-good-as-your-team-herve-lourdin-videdressing-com-d7259a2943e6/Videdressing, a community of fashion lovers, operates an online marketplace for the sale of pre-loved fashion and luxury goodsMon, 06 Mar 2017 09:24:14 GMThttps://cto.pizza/the-team-has-complete-discretion-to-reach-their-objectives-julien-masson-sav-group-e24d1903fef8/https://cto.pizza/the-team-has-complete-discretion-to-reach-their-objectives-julien-masson-sav-group-e24d1903fef8/SAV Group is a 20 people company (size doubled in a year) that raised 6.5M$ and that edits reverse logistics SaaS platformsMon, 11 Sep 2017 09:35:35 GMThttps://cto.pizza/there-are-3-types-of-ctos-clement-sauvage-les-tontons-livreurs-438dc1787508/https://cto.pizza/there-are-3-types-of-ctos-clement-sauvage-les-tontons-livreurs-438dc1787508/Les Tontons Livreurs is a 7 people company offering an adaptative “Man with a van” service and planning on raising funds soonFri, 25 Aug 2017 08:34:48 GMThttps://cto.pizza/treat-people-like-adults-dimitri-baeli-lesfurets-com-38089cecfa79/https://cto.pizza/treat-people-like-adults-dimitri-baeli-lesfurets-com-38089cecfa79/Lefurets is a leading insurance comparison engine in France, with a team of 80. Dimitri is their CTO.Wed, 07 Feb 2018 14:23:16 GMThttps://cto.pizza/validate-the-human-fit-with-the-team-before-anything-pierre-gielen-captain-contrat-gfp-c32d3fed8bef/https://cto.pizza/validate-the-human-fit-with-the-team-before-anything-pierre-gielen-captain-contrat-gfp-c32d3fed8bef/Pierre was the CTO of Captain Contrat (1M raised) and is now founding the Global Fintech PlatformThu, 03 Aug 2017 09:07:46 GMThttps://cto.pizza/we-made-all-the-mistakes-during-the-2000s-internet-bubble-benoit-hediard-agorapulse-e60d2ce99eda/https://cto.pizza/we-made-all-the-mistakes-during-the-2000s-internet-bubble-benoit-hediard-agorapulse-e60d2ce99eda/AgoraPulse is a Social Media CRM platform with 34 employees, bootstrapped and that finally found its market after 10 yearsMon, 22 May 2017 16:01:56 GMThttps://cto.pizza/we-met-and-realized-we-had-the-same-idea-pierre-klobb-needelp-12b4f3c453d5/https://cto.pizza/we-met-and-realized-we-had-the-same-idea-pierre-klobb-needelp-12b4f3c453d5/Needelp is a trustfully “jobbing” digital marketplace of 11 people that just raised 1.5M€Tue, 02 May 2017 09:58:41 GMThttps://cto.pizza/we-never-communicate-enough-stephane-alizon-younited-credit-82e9eda1e232/https://cto.pizza/we-never-communicate-enough-stephane-alizon-younited-credit-82e9eda1e232/Younited Credit facilitates financial transactions between lenders and borrowers and raised 103M€Mon, 26 Mar 2018 09:01:32 GMThttps://cto.pizza/what-keeps-you-awake-at-night-francis-nappez-blablacar-404ed41c9f24/https://cto.pizza/what-keeps-you-awake-at-night-francis-nappez-blablacar-404ed41c9f24/Blablacar is one of the main french Unicorns, with more than 420+ employees. Francis is the CTO and co-founder of this carpooling companyMon, 27 Nov 2017 14:41:20 GMThttps://cto.pizza/you-need-to-be-crazy-to-be-a-cto-vincent-oliveira-tiller-systems-1f45afc568cb/https://cto.pizza/you-need-to-be-crazy-to-be-a-cto-vincent-oliveira-tiller-systems-1f45afc568cb/Tiller Systems is a 100+ employees startup that raised 4M$ and provides point of sale software to restaurants. Vincent is their CTO.Tue, 09 Jan 2018 17:26:15 GMThttps://cto.pizza/your-most-precious-resource-is-your-engineers-time-diarmuid-gill-svp-product-engineering-d80abd9a67ae/https://cto.pizza/your-most-precious-resource-is-your-engineers-time-diarmuid-gill-svp-product-engineering-d80abd9a67ae/Mozzarella di buffala at Mamma PrimiThu, 28 Jun 2018 09:30:24 GMT