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The CTO Playbook

Hosted by Adam Horner

Product & Engineering

Join Adam Horner, a CTO with over 30 years in the tech industry, on The CTO Playbook — the podcast dedicated to helping CTOs excel. Perfect for CTOs and tech leaders navigating the complexities of their roles, each episode offers clear insights, innovative strategies, and practical advice from top leaders in tech. With Adam’s extensive experience mentoring engineers and tech leaders, and over a decade as a CTO, you’ll gain the tools and knowledge to build and refine your own CTO playbook.

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63: How Corey Hart Scaled a Crisis Team Fast — Without Losing Trust

The CTO Playbook

2421Sep 29, 2025

Build your own CTO Playbook here, the leadership platform built for the full CTO journey. Coaching, podcast, and community to help you lead with clarity, confidence, and strategic impact! Would you say yes to leading through chaos with no plan, little information, and no guarantee of success? In this episode, I sit down with Corey Hart, a crisis operator who’s built a career on scaling massive humanitarian and operations projects under extreme pressure.

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49: What’s the Point of Your Tech Team? Why Most CEOs are Missing the Signals

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3255Jun 23, 2025

Join The CTO Playbook Slack Community to connect with other CTOs! "Compliance doesn’t make you good—so how do you really know if your tech team is any good at all?" In this episode, Adam sits down with Andy Graham, former CTO with 30 years of M&A and enterprise tech leadership, and Dane Eldridge, serial entrepreneur and CEO of Stackup. Together, they’ve built a deceptively simple tool that’s flipping the script on how tech leaders assess their teams—and uncover hidden risks before they explode.

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