# Juozas Kaziukenas - Becoming a CTO (Highlights) ![rw-book-cover|256](https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/static/images/article4.6bc1851654a0.png) ## Highlights - In actuality, writing code is probably the last thing you will be doing. Instead it’s a person who is able to communicate the technology to others and lead them through execution of the project. ([View Highlight](https://instapaper.com/read/1441527395/17362325)) - As Camille Fournier puts it in ‘On the role of CTO,’ “The CTO must protect the technology team from becoming a pure execution arm for ideas without tending to its own needs and its own ideas.” ([View Highlight](https://instapaper.com/read/1441527395/17362327)) #quote - If a company needs a CTO then that person defines the vision for a long-term impact on technology. ([View Highlight](https://instapaper.com/read/1441527395/17362328)) - If a CTO doesn’t have that sort of power for technical decisions, they are not a CTO, but more of a lead engineer, in a suit. Suit being optional. ([View Highlight](https://instapaper.com/read/1441527395/17362329))