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Created: 2025-05-28 19:45:07 UTC

Viraj Parekh, co-founder and VP of Sales Engineering, is quoted in @Forbes today about the evolution of field CTO roles across many software organizations:

“The enterprise software market has moved beyond the days when you'd simply buy @Oracle or @SAP and run your entire business through it. Today we see that SaaS vendors, especially in the realm of data management, now fiercely compete for specific use cases. Just look at @Databricks versus @Snowflake with their similar offerings but distinct strengths in ML/AI and reporting analytics, respectively. This shift requires product teams to implement an additional strategic layer connecting existing offerings with customer goals and new capabilities. Field CTOs now operate on two fronts: helping customers navigate externally while reducing internal friction between initial concept and delivered value."

Read the full article by @ABridgwater:


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