CTO

Paul_Robert_

Oh apparently the CTO sold shares?

Kidquick26

Reddit's CTO unloaded shares. Again.

PrestigeFlight2022

CTO has sold $3M insider selling Put options expired and exercised at $214 I think Now sideways moving

bythepowerofboobs

More insider trading. CTO sold 12k shares.

ChanceStunning5407

CTO sold 20 million

BellacosePlayer

I'm not interested in investing but I'll be your CTO or some shit for a cut of the ~~Sca~~company , I know the buzzwords that cause angel investors panties to melt.

HoneyProfessional311

Based on solid fundamentals and research on leadership, I believe the company will be able to re-rate itself this year! It's in times of doubt that the 10 baggers are found. CEO founded a multibillion dollar telecom company, and its board consists of multiple generals and admirals, highly rare for a 300 million dollar company. Its CTO was also head of research of BAE systems for 7 years before becoming CTO.

DayThen6150

Entirely true. It has very little direct impact. Much like the early internet had very little direct impact and now it drives the majority of sales. AI is in its infancy however long overdue digital and tech overhauls are being implemented due to its empowerment of CTO budgets. This is especially true at public companies who have to show some AI spend on a conference call or risk being downgraded by analysts. These overhauls will create a demand for AI developed products long term. Not all AI companies will be winners.

thetaFAANG

He’s wrong ya know Basically here’s what happened: yes, the CTO gets big budgets now and a by product of that was needing to show something. CTO and PMs rushed engineers to make slop. Everyone sees the changes happening fast and thinks they need to deliver the AI version of someone else’s job just to keep their job. Thats the stuff with unrefined output. Nobody reads it or scrutinizes the output, it just looks good. Months later they have the affected party look at it and realizes its slop and not doing the job reliably well. But this is just a skill issue. The AI is fully capable of inserting itself into workflows that have been untouched by and exempt from the industrial revolution. It already is happening division by division. Just in a more meticulous and unrushed sane way.

Cheap-Sparrow

Am chip company employee. Cuda good because gpu programming is cuda. LLM trained in gpu use cuda. LLM trained on Nvidia fast because networking. TPU good because Google invest many eng many money make LLM trainable on tpu. Google networking good too. Train LLM on AMD? Not at scale. Networking bad. Data interconnect bad. Cuda equivalent bad. AMD shitters TPU as good as GPU? Idk. Matters? No. Google prove capability. If CTO of Regards Inc. sign $$$ to use tpu, you use tpu. Google manage TPU in GCP so less hassle.

dbgtboi

Everyone posting their big gains but nobody here can do what Mira Murati did This bish was literally the CTO of openai with 0 experience as an engineer and 0 qualifications in ai research and then somehow convinced investors to give her billions to start an AI company, which to nobody's surprise has already failed Y'all will never be on her level, this is the best "failing up" story I've ever seen

dbgtboi

Everyone posting their big gains but nobody here can do what Mira Murati did This bish was literally the CTO of openai with 0 experience as an engineer and 0 qualifications in ai research and then somehow convinced investors to give her billions to start an AI company which to nobody's surprise has already failed Y'all will never be on her level

kalakesri

I understand zuck but how is the CTO of META not fired

Due-Freedom-5968

Yeah pretty much - especially when you consider most of that type of business aren’t spending capital on GPUs etc, at worst they’re just renting a few more boxes from Google or AWS. The most exposure they’ll have to AI is gonna be a few random acquisitions. If you then flip it and think that every CTO has told their teams to go all in on AI and the easier way to do that it through other enterprise software companies then their prospect remain pretty decent. That said - Salesforce hasn’t done much useful with AI yet that I can see, Atlassian seems to be doing better purely because of the kind of data it holds as an happy accident from the products it has. Random blip, not the first, won’t be the last. The “AI Bubble“ ain’t popped yet.

Dmoan

Well John Carmack one of founders of ID software (Doom etc), went to oculus as CTO and once Meta bought them it went to hell according to him.  Meta managers took over Metaverse/Oculus and kicked aside those with gaming exp including people like Carmack. He expressed concerns about the engine (one that looks like shit) while they wasted hundreds of hours of man hours obsessing about colors of UI buttons and how meta verse shop should function . He left the company in disgust..

timee_bot

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MediumSinger8088

I addressed BIAL previously. It's private, can't bet on it. Scienfically : The compound BIA 28-6156 (pariceract) was essentially a precursor to the Gain technology; it is an allosteric activator, not a folding chaperone. The BIAL compound (previously LTI-291) showed no change in GluCer. Biomarker work included glycosphingolipids in PBMCs/plasma/CSF; a **transient intracellular GluCer increase in PBMCs** was observed but not explained ([A Phase 1B Trial in GBA1-Associated Parkinson's Disease of BIA-28-6156, a Glucocerebrosidase Activator - PubMed](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37195859/)). Peter Landsbury was involved as CTO in development of this LTI-291 before BIAL acquired it and he's now a consultant for Gain, one of the KOLs. BIAL study last patient to be treated scheduled April 2026. Positive or negative results will be misinterpreted by the market because of confusion about why these are different drugs.

Frequent_Sky7259

join the OG $HODL CTO 13sZphUksVH32haU5zrZ32y5qrPXskchSNz1T8eKbonk

Get-UserName

Totally agree. The new CTO they got from Amazon was the guy that ‘championed’ all the expensive and unsuccessful tech solutions for the palm scanning payment system and just walkout checkout systems you see in depressing Wholefoods and empty Amazon Fresh stores. I’m buying puts on this guy.

Chilkoot

> QS can overcome the scalability challenges, the product will be far superior to what Factorial can produce in terms of density, range, and charge time I'm double-checking the stats, and they look pretty close to me, with *perhaps* Factorial having the overall better solution (no pun - it's solid state!) as of writing: Energy Density: Factorial claims **375Wh/kg** on the [battery they used in the test with Stellantis](https://www.stellantis.com/en/news/press-releases/2025/april/stellantis-and-factorial-energy-reach-key-milestone-in-solid-state-battery-development), while QS's [published density](https://www.quantumscape.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/QSE-5-B-Sample-Hero-ar16x9-v4-2048x1152.png) is **301 Wh/kg** Charging: QS claims 15 minutes to charge from 10%-80%. Factorial claims 18 minutes to charge from 15% to 90%. Tie? I dunno - these companies are going to cherry pick what makes the cells look best, guess. Cycles: Factorial's saying 600 cycles, but that seems quite low unless I'm reading it wrong. The only thing I can find from QS's CTO says 1000 cycles. Operating Temp: Again going from some [older QS docs](https://www.quantumscape.com/resources/blog/a-discussion-of-quantumscapes-battery-technology-performance-results/), they claim an operational temp down to -30C, which is the same as Factorial's claimed minimum operating temp. A lot of people underestimate how important low-temp operation is for broad-scale market adoption, as onboard thermal management can gobble up a *ton* of range in colder environments.

NewAccount428412

The CTO of my company thinks that. Smart guy too. I guess it shows that you can be smart at one thing and not another.

Not-Reformed

Doctors and surgeons need hard credentials, your analogy adds a layer of what is effectively fraud into the mix that isn't present with what we're comparing it to. Regardless if I was the shareholder I would be looking at the big picture and what the person has provided me as a whole. If I invest at $5 and that executive team gets me to $100 then down to $70 over the course of 20 years I'm not going to go and say "Man if only that CTO went to college for comp sci 30 years ago right guys?" that wouldn't even be a thought on my mind much less something I'd say out loud.

Vonatos__Autista

I wouldn't I'm aware. They don't need it. Except the CTO. All the non-technical CTOs I've had the "pleasure" to work with were an absolute cancer on the organization.

hjablowme919

Currently a CIO with a degree in computer science and an MBA. I’ve been to several technology leadership conferences. You’d be surprised how many people in the role of CIO, CTO, CISO, CPO (chief privacy Officer), CDAIO (chief data and AI officer) have little to no background in technology.

Ok-Range-3306

he made salesforce go from 0 to 40B per year, do you think hes a good CTO? or just carried by the other... 5 employees at the time of founding?

TTKnumberONE

I think good problem solving is a teachable skill. Going for a STEM degree and especially engineering is a good start. In this specific example I think it’s pretty dumb to judge a guy from his undergraduate degree from 1989. A simple scan of his resume would indicate he immediately went to work as a SWE for 5 years before starting his own cloud computing company and then immediately went to Salesforce as CTO, which he’s been for 26 years now. It literally doesnt matter what he did for undergrad. So yes, you’re right in that most CTOs have engineering backgrounds and most CEOs would probably want a CTO to have that type of background. In this case there’s a pretty clear reason none of that matters.

CLV9

You are spot on and getting downvoted, core principles and engineering challenges do not change as frequently as these people think. Literally every other top CEO and CTO have engineering degrees and these people argue that a few anecdotes completely disqualifies this. Lisa Su, Jensen Huang, Satya Nadella, C.C. Wei, Jeff Bezos have the same branch of engineering degree even.

CLV9

If you have an engineering degree you should know how important and rare good problem solving- and engineering skills are, which are difficult to pick up just from working to the same breadth and quality. This whole thread is just inexperienced people bringing up anecdotes to try and disprove the very clear fact that most top of the line CTO's (or CEO's in tech companies) HAVE engineering degrees.

saudiaramcoshill

>p.s. Looked up their executives. CTO (chief technology officer!!!) is Parker Harris: "Parker has a B.A. in English literature from Middlebury College." Middlebury College is a private liberal arts college in Middlebury, Vermont. https://www.salesforce.com/company/parker-harris-bio/ >If there was a better candidate for replacement with LLM, I would break down in tears Bro started out as a software engineer out of college and then *co-founded Salesforce* and this fucking idiot is saying he's unqualified for his role lmao

TTKnumberONE

A bachelors in whatever the cutting edge technology was in 1999 is only slightly more useful than one in underwater basket weaving. Maybe less so in that you’d have less to unlearn. Presumably a person hired as CTO has kept current with professional development over the years. There’s a reason people hire based on experience and not school after a few years.

koteko_

A CTO is also supposed to be the tech voice on the board, so if says let's fire 4000 employees and pay premium on AI agents, they will listen 

x7_omega

It is a qualification for CEO, not CTO - bs artist in chief, promotes and sells the company.

hjablowme919

Former CTO I reported to at JP Morgan had the same degree. At that level it’s about strategy and plans for the short and long term future. You don’t have to be a technologist, you need to understand where the technology is going and how best to leverage it.

the_ammar

>p.s. Looked up their executives. CTO (chief **technology** officer!!!) is Parker Harris: "Parker has a **B.A. in English literature** from Middlebury College." Middlebury College is a private **liberal arts college** in Middlebury, Vermont. [https://www.salesforce.com/company/parker-harris-bio/](https://www.salesforce.com/company/parker-harris-bio/) did you miss the part about him being a co founder? he can be C fking whatever and he'd still get paid the same

LordFedorington

I mean he did found Salesforce in 1999 so he built a billion dollar software company. I think that’s a better qualification for CTO than a STEM degree

fldfcnscsnss

That's totally fine. Biggest lesson - marrying her was poor judgement on my part. Also, just the fact that I grew out of the whole ordeal. I am more resilient. I worry a lot less. I live in the present instead of constantly planning for every contingency in hopes of holding on to what I have. Example: A couple months go our new CTO met with me one on one for the first time. He clearly stated that as a senior software engineer and team lead, that I make more than two junior developers out of college who probably are more adaptable and therefore valuable than an old dinosaur like me whose experience is becoming irrelevant. 20 years ago, that encounter would have sent me into a panic attack. Now? I looked him in the eye, smiled and told him, he was probably right and that I wouldn't blame him for getting rid of me. At that very moment everything changed, including his facial expression and posture. He now calls me for advice at least twice a week on a potential reorg and wants me to take on a bigger role. And honestly, I still don't care either way.

Marko-2091

700,000 really? I have had more than that in asts lol. I would be more worried about the share dump by the 40,000 shares dump by the CTO. These sales were not preplanned.

Dan-FTP

I'm a co-founder and former CTO at CFS, one of the biggest private fusion companies. Here's my take cross-posted from my LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7407487225485086720/): Quick thoughts on the Trump Media & Technology Group and TAE Technologies, Inc merger news today: It's not the strangest fusion partnership to date. For that I'd award the founder of Penthouse funding the development of the Riggatron fusion machine (which was named after a bank) in the 1980's: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riggatron](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riggatron) It's obvious the markets are hot for AI and anything that looks like it can power it. Even the supersonic aviation aspiring Boom Supersonic has pivoted part of its business to support energy production: [https://boomsupersonic.com/superpower](https://boomsupersonic.com/superpower) After a few quite years, IPOs and SPACs are back. Even General Fusion is rumored to be going public soon: [https://www.reddit.com/r/fusion/comments/1pfxnnn/general\_fusion\_ipo/](https://www.reddit.com/r/fusion/comments/1pfxnnn/general_fusion_ipo/) Scaling fusion is hard, with most private company's net-energy concepts likely costing high $100M's to >$1B to design, build, and operate. Raising that kind of money in the private markets might be even harder. Only Commonwealth Fusion Systems, Pacific Fusion, and Helion have been able to raise the massive rounds needed to build at fusion-scale. TAE Technologies, Inc has raised over $1B in total, but has done it over the course of 25+ years. After decades of promising that their commercial fusion machine is just around the corner, companies like TAE and General Fusion are likely getting a lot of pressure from their investors to exit. All this combined means that going into the public markets is probably the best opportunity for some fusion companies to satisfy the liquidity desires of their long term investors and to get the cash the company needs to build its next step device. I urge a healthy dose of skepticism towards anyone promising that fusion (and fission energy for that matter) is the near-term solution to our AI/data center power appetites. While they hopefully will turn out to be great options in the long run, it takes years of work to design, build, and operate prototypes and first-of-a-kind plants in the nuclear energy industry. And then many more years to scale up the industry to the level needed to make a wide-scale impact. To me, that doesn't mean we shouldn't try to scale these energy sources; it means that we try to figure out how to do it better, including forming partnerships to accelerate where we can. Only time will tell how well this new partnership works out. I've got my "bucket of popcorn" out to enjoy while watching this unfold. 🍿

gizamo

I direct dev teams for a Fortune 500. Every time I see a company using AEM, I have to assume that their CTO just absolutely loves to burn money *after* they wipe their asses with it. Then, they inhale the smoke to get some semblance of that long, long-ago time, back when they had more than 3 functional brain cells. Similarly, Adobe Commerce is a complete mockery of what Magento once was, and it's not integrated into AEM well at all. It's like a drunken hillbilly decided to weld his old broken down trunk onto his mobile home so give himself yet another bathroom for their wipe/burn/inhale ritual.

SlfImpr

> "WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Dr. Ethan Klein was confirmed by the Senate to serve as U.S. Chief Technology Officer. He will also serve as Associate Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). >As U.S. CTO, Dr. Klein will lead and coordinate national policy efforts to **advance American leadership across critical and emerging technologies, including AI, quantum, nuclear energy, and biotechnology**. From the White House, Dr. Klein will work to cement America’s place as the most innovative nation in the world, orchestrating initiatives to maximize the impact of research and development, promote public-private collaboration, and bring the benefits of technology to the American people." Market sentiment is pretty sour on these sectors right now 😂

Then_Manufacturer723

The hype is real and I see it everyday with the company I work for. We are moving everything toward AI and just brought in a new CTO to help with all our data and operations for transformation.

vapenutz

Apache won out because it was good enough and free, it had abysmal performance but nobody cared. Nginx was an alternative written by a hobbyist with focus for performance. AI ecosystem is already at the nginx stage essentially, when Apache was mostly used for legacy apps and dying rapidly because nobody wants a web server that's slow. Nobody thinks about what web server they're using if it's good enough and up to the task. IIS? Not serious enough, sorry. Nobody serves web sites from Windows server. Why you'd pay for a Windows server license for that? It's not faster, it's not better, it just supports Microsoft stuff natively. You can run ASP.NET Core on Linux, most do just that. Windows is no longer king even in technologies that Microsoft created. Nobody is picking the Microsoft flavour of ASP.NET anymore, everybody is using the one that runs on Linux. Let that sink in. This is the route Oracle is going right now too. Why would you ever pick Oracle as your database for anything when Postgresql exists, is free and open source, and the company is famously litigious and tries to take your money? You wouldn't. And that's exactly what's happening. Sure, they have legacy deployments, but trust me. No CTO ever was like "guys, let's just use the proven tech - an Oracle database" in 2025. Why you'd ever pick that?

Worried_Judgment_962

This dude has no idea what he is talking about. You’re going to host a natilonwide platform on Vercel for $500 a month. Sure you are. Some vibe code vulnerability as a service piece of junk. You so very clearly have no experience whatsoever in the software engineering and hosting space. I’ve heard a lot of confidently wrong bullshit before but this is in a class of its own. 😂 Source: I’m the CTO of a major live selling app and ex principal engineer at several very large tech companies

Worried_Quarter469

The 10b was anthropic, not openAI, they doubled it to 21b already and they are buying GOOG chips not designing their own OpenAI just hired Intel CTO to design start designing their own chips about a month ago

letmesplainyou

according to Gemini: QuantumScape Chief Technology Officer (**CTO**) **Timothy Holme** has primarily been selling shares to **cover tax obligations** associated with the exercise of stock options and restricted stock units (RSUs). Many of the sales were part of pre-arranged trading plans, not a reaction to any specific negative company news. 

SharestepAI

It looks like the CTO has been selling shares since summer.

optionsCone

Yes, good for NVDA > "Oracle sold Ampere because we no longer think it is strategic for us to continue designing, manufacturing and using our own chips in our cloud datacenters," said Oracle Chairman and CTO, Larry Ellison. "We are now committed to a policy of chip neutrality where we work closely with all our CPU and GPU suppliers. Of course, we will continue to buy the latest GPUs from NVIDIA, but we need to be prepared and able to deploy whatever chips our customers want to buy. There are going to be a lot of changes in Al technology over the next few years and we must remain agile in response to those changes."

jimb0z_

Here we go with the PC bullshit. “What about this. What if that” How about talking to a friend in IT and ask how many times they’ve seen a company hire an indian CEO/CTO followed by a wave of a jobs or entire departments sent to india. Go ahead. It’s funny how we can all agree that Americans offshoring to save a few dollars is bad. But pointing out the direct link between those same companies hiring indians with links to india to help facilitate those offshoring initiatives is a line we can’t cross for some reason

chadmn154

Tell me your short without tell me your short. The CTO and CFO sold "some" share the last week and in October. But not the CEO.

veeta212

he was also CTO for 8 years

virtual_adam

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605ffbe6a45fbc5906a819ea/f96c4f13-2c74-4602-a72e-030201a1ef85/3.png?format=1500w One peek at the CTO P. Winterbottom and the fact he’s an 11 year Bell Labs alumni tells me they’re not making vaporware over there

Spitefulnugma

You'd think a guy who was CTO and CEO of Intel would know what he's talking about. I mean clearly not. Wtf?

hyzer_skip

What are you suggesting these other companies do with their engineers who have little to no experience with XLA/TPUs and all the rules and architectural differences that come with it? Just take a couple years to retrain them in this technology? The bottleneck is that you are now forcing your expert engineers to reskill and relying on a 3rd party to fix it when things go wrong. You think this cloud engineering support team will be able to diagnose and fix the inevitable string of errors as these labs experiment with bleeding edge techniques to squeeze the most out of model architecture? We are talking about an entire research lab no longer owning their development end to end because they do not have the experience to fix their own XLA errors, bugs, whatever. You’re suggesting that these labs tell their PhD level researchers to rely on an external engineering department when things go wrong? It’s not armchair CTO, it’s common sense. I’m not even able to really comprehend what it is you’re suggesting these AI labs should do exactly because it doesn’t sound rational unless you have a vested interest in Google getting more cloud deals.

thethiefstheme

Boston dynamics have been pushing out the same dog robot and same humanoid robot for 25 years with almost zero improvements while Chinese robots have eclipsed them. Not sure what this CTO could possibly bring. https://youtu.be/glOL5SD4uKw?si=X5SIYmRaDEQ8PMaE

Infinityy100b

Google Search revenue has dropped from 80% to around 55% of total revenue and is projected to drop to around 40% by 2030 of the total revenue. So I would say they are diversifying. Revenue from Google workspace is still very slim as compared to Microsoft 365 they have not leveraged it to the full potential and I feel it would change after the launch of Android powered windows competitor early next year. Along with that they are becoming the leading player in ai with getting their hands into robotics (hired Boston dynamics former CTO), autonomous driving and many more along with growing margins in their cloud division with the clock growing from 110 billion dollars to 155 billion in just one quarter. YouTube still doesn't have any competitor being the only platform with increasing total playtime gaining market share from other players in the industry. There are many other things Google doing we don't even know while being the only player having the full AI Technology stack.

iMakeGOODinvestmemts

$GOOG winning AI and killing openai. Read 1/ Right now, Nvidia is the "Arms Merchant." They sell the H100s. Everyone pays the tax. Their entire stock price assumes they keep ~75% margins forever. But Google just made a move that changes the physics of the board. They aren't trying to sell chips. They're trying to make chips irrelevant. 2/ The setup is simple: Nvidia makes money by keeping hardware expensive (High Margin). Google makes money on ads/services, so they want compute to be free (High Volume). These goals are incompatible. In Game Theory, this is a "Structural Conflict." 3/ For years, Nvidia had a "Hold-Up" on the industry. You want to do AI? You pay the Nvidia tax because CUDA is the only software that works. It was a monopoly based on fear: "Switching to another chip is too risky. What if the code breaks?" 4/ Enter Gemini 3.0. Google trained it on TPUs. They run it on TPUs. They don't pay the Nvidia tax. This means their internal cost-per-token is structurally ~50% lower than OpenAI's (who has to pay Microsoft, who has to pay Nvidia). 5/ (This is the part that clicked for me) Google creates a "Price Ceiling." If Google sells intelligence for $1, OpenAI can’t sell it for $2 just because they use expensive Nvidia chips. OpenAI must match the price to survive. But they can't. Not while paying Nvidia's margin. 6/ This traps Nvidia’s best customers in a corner. To match Google’s prices, Microsoft and OpenAI are forced to build their own chips (Maia) to stop paying Nvidia. Nvidia’s own pricing power is exactly what is incentivizing its customers to destroy it. 7/ So where does the equilibrium settle? I ran the scenarios. It leads to a split. Zone A: Discovery (Nvidia Wins)Researchers still use Nvidia because speed matters more than cost. Zone B: Utility (Google Wins)Once a model works, you run it on cheap custom chips. 8/ You can see the strategies shifting in real-time right now: Google: Aggressive subsidies ($350k credits) to get startups to rewrite their code off CUDA. Nvidia: Bundling software (NIMs) to make leaving impossible. It's classic "Free Drugs" vs "Golden Handcuffs." 9/ If you are building in AI, here is the "Tripwire" to watch. Ignore the benchmarks. Watch the Token Price. If GPT-5 class pricing drops below $2.00/1M tokens, the "Nvidia Tax" is mathematically dead. The market is fleeing to custom silicon. 10/ The one question to ask your CTO tomorrow: "If we had to switch from Nvidia GPUs to Google TPUs or AWS chips tomorrow, would it take us 1 week or 6 months?" If the answer is 6 months, you are the "sucker" at the table paying the tax. 11/ The takeaway: In a gold rush, it's usually good to sell shovels. Unless your biggest customer decides to invent a steam shovel just to stop paying you

SlfImpr

Google DeepMind has hired Aaron Saunders, the former CTO of Boston Dynamics, to lead its hardware engineering efforts marking a bold step toward building the “Android of robots.” Saunders brings deep robotics expertise from developing Atlas and Spot, and will now help turn Gemini into a universal AI control system for both humanoids and non-humanoids.

SlfImpr

Google DeepMind has hired Aaron Saunders, the former CTO of Boston Dynamics, to lead its hardware engineering efforts marking a bold step toward building the “Android of robots.” Saunders brings deep robotics expertise from developing Atlas and Spot, and will now help turn Gemini into a universal AI control system for both humanoids and non-humanoids.

iMakeGOODinvestmemts

$GOOGL robotics and software division coming. Boston Dynamics CTO to lead robotics venture.

wuhanabe

Both Steve Huffman and Chris Slowes sales were part of a 10b5-1 trading plan. The plan was set up May 2025 and sales were pre determined. I would hardly call a 6% share sale for the CTO significant, as for Huffman he still owns and has rights of conversion for a further 5.4 million shares so an 18,000 share sale is a rounding error. Maybe he needed to pay his private chef. To your other points a low float also describes how the stock may move explosively up if sentiment changes. Reddit Q4 earnings is likely to top $1 EPS based off current margins and forecast revenue. At the current share price forward PE would drop to 46. If we keep that same trajectory into Q1 26 the P/E may drop to 38 or lower.

wuhanabe

Both Steve Huffman and Chris Slowes sales were part of a 10b5-1 trading plan. The plan was set up May 2025 and sales were pre determined. I would hardly call a 6% share sale for the CTO significant, as for Huffman he still owns and has rights of conversion for a further 5.4 million shares so an 18,000 share sale is a rounding error. Maybe he needed to pay his private chef. To your other points a low float also describes how the stock may move explosively up if sentiment changes. Reddit Q4 earnings is likely to top $1 EPS based off current margins and forecast revenue. At the current share price forward PE would drop to 46. If we keep that same trajectory into Q1 26 the P/E may drop to 38 or lower.

cdude

Buddy, a CAO and other low-level C-level positions are just in title, they mean jack shit outside of the CEO and sometimes CTO. This CAO just joined, his entire compensation package is $3 millions which is insignificant. No one cares because in the corporate world this is nothing. Do you get a lot of corporate insights being a 30-year old electrician? You say there's a bubble when laymen talk about stocks, may be we should all take your advice. When trades people discuss investing, do the opposite of what they say.

ImmodestPolitician

MSFT is the IBM of the 2020s. CTO can't get fired for picking MSFT. I met Balmer once. Funny story I won't tell.

bzl33

Karp is one of the dumbest tech CEOs I've ever heard talk about tech. It feels like he's the figurehead while the CTO runs the show and in the past Thiel ran it.

Cantthinkofacoolnam

NBIS insiders sold ALL THERE SHARES OPEN CEO CFO and CTO purchased millions. Once insiders sell lot their entire position no reason to be bullish in the company. OPEN is a better buy than NBIS.

Peresviet

Literally have a friend that started a company and uses AI to code, he has 15 years of software dev experience and is a CTO for another company. It’s definitely a huge boost in his output. This is the productivity acceleration people are talking about. Devs at my company are using Gemini to create basic apps for marketing purposes, stuff that automates / standardizes marketing visual content 

StickMaleficent2382

Too many coincidences for me. Potential parts of the puzzle falling into place in the last couple of weeks ..... The rumoured $5bn INTC acquisition of sambanova (whos A.I. inference is apparently superior to Nvidia's) Softbank own large stakes in the governments crown jewel INTC and also in sambanova. Softbank raise $5bn by selling shares in direct inference competitor. Reeks of conflict of interest doesn't it. Lipbu serves as exec chair in sambanova. INTC A.I. CTO moved on paving the way for Rodrigo Liang samba chair to replace him.

sailortyx56

Intel's CTO & AI Chief is leaving for an infrastructure role at OpenAI after just 7 months in the position. Intel CTO is a Stanford Prof. lol.

jose_incandenza

Meta is one of the companies that can use current LLMs best. They just have a CTO who is a total disaster in the communication area. I don't thing the current price drop has nothing to do with the tax hit, but with the poor narrative on capex spending.

Ziilot147

Is undervalued. ATH was in October of $140 per shares. Right now were at \~110, jumping between 100 and 120 depeninding on the macro events the past few weeks. There are multiple reasons as to why $110 is undervalued for NBIS. First of all: In Q2 ER they reported \~100% QoQ revenue growth and 625% YoY revenue growth, and on track to keep the momentum in Q3 and well into 2026. To be concise theyre supposed to go from \~500 million in revenue for 2025 to 3 billion in revenue in 2026. In large part to the fact that they signed a 17 billion dollar contract with Microsoft over 5 years. Which is roughly 3.4 Billion just from this deal alone, but companies like Shopify and Cloudflare are also NBIS clients. Secondly: Nebius is not just data centers. Its called 'Nebius Group' for a reason and they have a number of subsidiaries of which the top 3 are Avride, Toloka and 28% of Clickhouse. For example Avride signed a 375 million dollar deal with Uber last month, to deploy a few hundrer autonomous cars in TX Dallas. Clickhouse hinted at an IPO starting at a valuation of 40 billion dollars, placing NBIS 28% stake at 10 billion alone (NBIS current mcap is less than 30 billion). Third and last: They're just a superior company. Nebius very clearly outdoes its competitors like CoreWeave and ex-BTC miners. [They're one of the few companies to achieve the Nvidia exemplar status](https://nebius.com/blog/posts/achieving-nvidia-exemplar-status-on-h200-gpus), as well as they opened their new data center in the UK this week, with a quote from the CTO: “Nebius’s first data center with the first B300s in the UK isn’t coming sometime maybe — it’s live. First customers will start in days.” Side note: NBIS has very high institutional interest. For example JP Morgan added 500k shares just now, and they have over 1.3m in total. DA Davidson just increased their PT to $150. Some analysts like Northland have a PT of $206. After the Microsoft deal was announced, Goldman Sachs increased PT from $77 to $120. TL;DR if NBIS can show \~210m revenue for Q3 2025, I strongly believe this stock will go back to 130-140 range from current \~110.

Ecstatic-Ad-2254

Wallstreetbets should just do a massive CTO on Gen Z Quant. Shit looks bottomed asf. We can make it the next GME except now on the blockchain for the bullrun

Huldenschopf

I initially got in contact following Charles Archer. He has written several Articles and did Interviews with the team. But DYOR, it is a risk play! Readings to start: https://thatstocksguy.substack.com/p/defence-holdings-the-ground-floor https://thatstocksguy.substack.com/p/defence-holdings-fd3 Here a video-interview with the CTO Andy McCartney and the CPO of Whitespace, which is the company, DH has a JV with. The two companies are intertwined (personal wise).

Sensitive-Radish-292

I actually see the bigger picture, but I do see the risks involved. And when this company failed to present results for such a long time, it's questionable if the market needs the product. Hence the entrypoint is too high for me to enter and I consider this company overvalued. This is all based on my knowledge of the sector and experience within this sector as an ex-CTO of a bootstrapped startup.

Solace50

Also, on a side note, not only has the CTO called out the institution targeting them for a live 1:1 meeting. Do you actually think it is coincidence that both this org and Kramer publish news around DVLT on the SAME day? I wish I bought the 1.80 dip but I generally EOD these kinda things. The 2$ entry seems sensible and low risk. At worst maybe it dips to the 1.80 Monday if there is some additional fallout. The company is actively working to respond to the claims according to their social feed and any news over the weekend will be about a 2.50 rebound.

Solace50

A single report does not indicate a "scam", when companies get 150mil in funding even if in crypto waves of it. It is still value to the cause. While the report has some legitimate concerns it contains very little factual evidence with the exception of the sec prosecution from 2021 for the CTO which paid 40k in fines.

Electrical-Fishing44

answered my own question questrade put a CTO on this stock

Big-Safe-2459

There’s a good interview with the CTO on [NTY Interesting Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/opinion/palantir-shyam-sankar-military.html) this week worth listening to.

Sensitive-Radish-292

I worked as a CTO in a bootstrapped US-based startup in this sector. I think I know what I'm talking about. I myself am not a boomer by definition, I'm a millenial.

Titanium-Marshmallow

I see a few posts here touting NXXT but I don't mind, I think there's a story here. But what happened after the IPO? The CEO/CTO look real. Sell me.

kalakesri

Meta CTO might be more unlikeable than zuck is that why he has the title

dudeatwork77

Hired! New CTO&CFO for cmg

CryptoChartz

Every freakin Time RDDT starts to go up their stupid COO/CTO sell shares and tank it. wtf are they thinking they need to be removed

te7037

Yes, it is but the share price will be higher. The interim CEO sounds like a sensible guy. He's just preparing us for the potential reverse split. Their CTO bought 500,000 shares at 60 cents if I'm not mistaken.

Magikarp_to_Gyarados

>Could someone actually explain what Elon does for Tesla or ever has done? I've been a TSLA shareholder since 2011. I've also voted **against** the new compensation deal. Elon Musk was important in Tesla's early days. When he initially joined Tesla as board chairman in 2003, his main contribution to the business was employee recruitment. Musk hired Tesla's first CTO, J.B. Straubel (now a Tesla board member), and many of Tesla's other early top leadership and engineering staff. This is detailed in both Ashlee Vance's 2015 biography of Musk, and Walter Isaacson's 2023 book. Musk was also heavily involved in product design during the 2000s and 2010s. Even in a non-executive role as board chair, Musk demanded dozens of changes to the original Roadster. He reviewed every iteration of the car and often infuriated designers and engineers with his demands. In the 2010s, he worked closely with Franz von Holzhausen on designs that became Model S, X, and 3. Employee recruitment and vision for product development. Basically the same as Steve Jobs at Apple. Mr. Musk appears to have always been somewhat mentally unstable, but he clearly went off the rails in 2022 with Twitter. Being an absentee CEO, while also destroying the reputation of the company, are IMO offenses that warrant immediate termination from the company. Tesla's board should have fired Musk in 2022.

RWLLRWLL

Alright this is my last post about scwo for this week, just my point of view of what will happen next week or next 2 week. Yes they filled requesting of authorization for reverse split last friday, but not that they are gonna use it, its their safety net and last option just in case everything goes wrong, same thing happened with like dfli, nuai, dvlt. And the price for all those stocks dump -15 to -20% as well, but rebound in the next week after they send some catalyst. They r just seeking for authorization not that they WILL 100% do it, its like i buy extra tire for my car, not that im gonna use it tomorrow for sure, but for just in case worse scenario happen. And judging by everything we had so far, the ceo is getting paid 1$ and 4.5m vested shares, CTO granted 500k shares at 0.6 price and each board member has to buy 50k $ worth in shares which they done already, so really reverse split would be their last option. Also the filling is a good filling in my opinion, ppl just overreacted seeing the word “reverse split” without reading the context, they also claimed that they have done atm at 7m$ which is enough cash till q2 2026, and this is not my statement, its the ceo’s, also the most important thing is the CEO bold statement ,” we are focus on maintaining to regain compliance without rs”, i dont think he will say that if they dont have anything up their sleeve. Most of the stock that does RS is either they dont have catalyst or cash, which, scwo has both, so judging by other potential stock like dfli, dvlt and nuai, they did the same filling and send some PR after that and the price recover, i think Scwo will send some Pr this week, no idea what or when, lets see

TheGreatValleyOak

Where does it say that? Yong Meng is the CTO and Dr. Milan Begliarbekov is the COO

unil79

Yeah, CEO is also the COO and CTO of the company, sounds like a scam.

RWLLRWLL

Scwo has till january 2026 to regain compliance, and for me , they wont do reverse split, it will be suicide and very unwise, why? the ceo get paid 1$ and 4.5m vested shares, and the new policy that each board member has to buy 50k$ each in shares, not including what they already had, and the CTO granted 500k shares in 0.6 price, so, by doing reverse split, they r killing themselves, and i notice most stock who did reverse split is like pharmacy stock, every stock that has real potential tend to use catalyst to pump the price organicly like dvlt, nuai, dfli. Now imo scwo will give 1 or 2 major PR before nov 12 which is their earning report day which the ceo claimed as “strengthened balance sheet”. Good luck.

KLYNW6055

No no the original CEO did, about a year or so ago. (Nagar) Was let go for trying to dilute shares when they were already non compliant for trading. The picture here is the CTO, he's still on board. https://preview.redd.it/yhj026xcj3xf1.jpeg?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2d6eb7bedf255942b1dbb4961bb424be376928d7

te7037

CTO got sacked?

KLYNW6055

Looks like the CTO is trying to absorb Nagar's liquidation of his 10% stake he got from his severance. 500k isn't a lot by any means ownership wise but when insiders BUY, that's a very, very good sign.

te7037

CTO bought 500,000 shares at 60 cents on 9 October 2025. https://preview.redd.it/05gup5out2xf1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=7af0a5ec94fd70c4f6bed2185f34865f01413749

RWLLRWLL

SCWO when ceo get paid 1$ in salary and vested 4.5m shares, each board member has to bought 50k$ in shares, CTO got shares in 0.6 average, u know they confident af and something is coming.

FarrisAT

Switching? No. My leadership isn’t switching. But they did just ask the CTO if new cloud business is possible with alternative providers.

TheTideRider

Nvidia selling to China makes China more dependent on American products! It gives us more leverage if we want to cut them off the cutting edge chips. Palantir CTO does not understand basic logic.

Suitable_Air_2686

Part of admitting the “problem” is also being pragmatic and sensible about it. It’s about admitting that a decoupling from China would require a total rearrangement of global supply chains. These are the things you prepare for in the background not the things you make noise about and then take a 20% cut. Also, the Palantir CTO is simply talking his book. They literally stand to gain from more people being “China Hawks” as they are major defence contractor.

MarioMartinsen

Learn about investing first without watching stock news. Find the Niche first, dig in and out. Monitor every company, their CEO, CTO etc you are interested in on all platforms. Know and understand what you own. If you want to make money long term, study : Howard Marks, Peter Lynch, Mohnish Pabrai, Guy Spier etc But if you want to trade and lose money just fallow random youtubers and us here on Reddit 😂

DLCW

Yes, just in, Oracle and KFC Partner to Launch "BucketGPT" “AI is the future,” said Larry Ellison, Oracle CTO and Founder, while inexplicably dressed as a chicken nugget. “But what if the future also tasted like chicken?” Oracle’s stock (ticker: ORCL) jumped by more than 50 % on the news, and Jefferies raised its price target from 320USD to 550 USD, citing the 'once in a generation opportunity for transformation'.

atwilightworld

It's gonna be ok... I'm mainly looking at low cap with high potential at the moment. Market might fluctuate, but important to believe in something IMO. This is the one I'm looking at the most at the moment. # Aurora Innovation ($AUR) - Company Overview **Company Background** Aurora was founded in 2017 by three autonomous vehicle industry veterans: Chris Urmson (former CTO of Google's self-driving team/Waymo), Sterling Anderson (former head of Tesla Autopilot), and Drew Bagnell (former head of Uber's autonomy and perception team). The company is focused on developing the Aurora Driver, a self-driving system for both commercial trucking and passenger vehicles. **Uber Investment & Backing** Uber is a major backer and investor in Aurora. In December 2020, Aurora acquired Uber's self-driving unit (Advanced Technologies Group or ATG), and as part of the deal, Uber invested $400 million in Aurora and took a 26% ownership stake in the company Aurora Innovation. Uber has continued to increase its stake, including a $75 million stake in July 2023, bringing Uber's total investment to approximately $802 million. As of 2023, Uber owns about 22.4% of Aurora Buying and selling in autonomous trucking developer Aurora Innovation. **NVIDIA Partnership** Aurora has a significant partnership with NVIDIA. In January 2025, Aurora, Continental, and NVIDIA announced a long-term strategic partnership to deploy driverless trucks at scale, powered by NVIDIA's next-generation DRIVE Thor system-on-a-chip. Continental plans to mass-manufacture the Aurora Driver integrated with NVIDIA technology starting in 2027. When this partnership was announced, Aurora's stock surged about 30% in a single day. **Technology & Partnerships** Aurora has developed its own long-range lidar system called FirstLight and uses Verifiable AI to help the Aurora Driver adapt to new operating domains while being validated through their Safety Case The recent NVIDIA and Continental partnerships position them for scalable manufacturing. **Strong Balance Sheet** As of the September 2024 quarter, Aurora had $1.248 billion in cash on hand with no debt, giving it a very strong current ratio. NFA/DYOR Who else is tracking this?

atwilightworld

# Aurora Innovation ($AUR) - Company Overview **Company Background** Aurora was founded in 2017 by three autonomous vehicle industry veterans: Chris Urmson (former CTO of Google's self-driving team/Waymo), Sterling Anderson (former head of Tesla Autopilot), and Drew Bagnell (former head of Uber's autonomy and perception team). The company is focused on developing the Aurora Driver, a self-driving system for both commercial trucking and passenger vehicles. **Uber Investment & Backing** Uber is a major backer and investor in Aurora. In December 2020, Aurora acquired Uber's self-driving unit (Advanced Technologies Group or ATG), and as part of the deal, Uber invested $400 million in Aurora and took a 26% ownership stake in the company Aurora Innovation. Uber has continued to increase its stake, including a $75 million stake in July 2023, bringing Uber's total investment to approximately $802 million. As of 2023, Uber owns about 22.4% of Aurora Buying and selling in autonomous trucking developer Aurora Innovation. **NVIDIA Partnership** Aurora has a significant partnership with NVIDIA. In January 2025, Aurora, Continental, and NVIDIA announced a long-term strategic partnership to deploy driverless trucks at scale, powered by NVIDIA's next-generation DRIVE Thor system-on-a-chip. Continental plans to mass-manufacture the Aurora Driver integrated with NVIDIA technology starting in 2027. When this partnership was announced, Aurora's stock surged about 30% in a single day. **Technology & Partnerships** Aurora has developed its own long-range lidar system called FirstLight and uses Verifiable AI to help the Aurora Driver adapt to new operating domains while being validated through their Safety Case The recent NVIDIA and Continental partnerships position them for scalable manufacturing. **Strong Balance Sheet** As of the September 2024 quarter, Aurora had $1.248 billion in cash on hand with no debt, giving it a very strong current ratio. NFA/DYOR Who else is tracking this?