You’ll never make C-level.
There’s a jar on my desk that says so.
CTO at Omilia · Tech entrepreneur
From warship command to engineering command.
I lead 200 engineers building conversational AI for Fortune 500 enterprises, and I am driving its transformation into a genuinely AI-first organization. Thirteen years in naval command taught me the rest: decide with incomplete information, and ship what holds when conditions turn.
The CTO's job stopped being shipping features. It is engineering an organization that ships itself.
200+
Engineers led
Fortune 500
Clients served
13 yrs
Naval command
30 mo
In command at sea
Drama kills orgs. Solutions feed them.
Most people think they’re good at escalating. They’re not. They just pass the baton and call it leadership.
The whole internet tells you to say no. Say no to almost everything and yes to almost nothing, protect your time like it’s the last fuel on the ship.
I did the opposite. It built me.
Productivity Yes. Profitability No. Why most AI layoffs are not what they claim to be.
Last Thursday, the CEO of ClickUp, Zeb Evans, cut 22% of the company and framed the cuts as a strategy, not a cost decision.
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