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WalkIntoSunshine

Long day for me so forgive the hasty response. I believe they will be taking a stake for approx 18.75%, and soon. Just my opinion after my own dd. Aptiv has stated they need a LiDAR partner and are in process of selecting one. They also mentioned bolt on acquisitions in their last EC, as well as wanting the right LiDAR partner. Multiple quotes about heavy equip/mining/ag, industrial, drones, and defense. Mvis issued a pr almost every week in April about each of those. Current CEO of mvis Glen DeVos was former Aptiv CTO, and senior VP. The gentlemen who took his role was at mvis prior in a specialist position. He has stated Mvis is the best LiDAR company (granted during his tenure there) Many, many more connections, including engineers and hr. Mvis has also rolled up Scantinel and Luminar in the last 6 months. They have the most robust LiDAR portfolio now and are able to offer 905, 940, 1550c ToF, FMCW. Mvis is also EU sovereign (they filed for a German subsidiary after Scantinel acquisition). They are one of the only LiDAR companies that are approved for EUD when hundreds of billions are being pumped into defense globally. Research IntelicBASE, Brave1 (awards coming next week and some starter announcements about plans have been dropping today) There’s a lot more. It’s a steal right now. I believe they will be the dominant LiDAR player in the market. (There will be room for a few) Short interest continues to be ridiculous. There’s the whole LBS for AR conversation happening as well. High risk/high reward. Some feel a reverse split is coming soon. I believe it will be a strategic investment. One of us will likely be wrong. Personally not worried if it does an r/s. The tech is too important and the future finally caught up to it. LiDAR will be everywhere soon Apologies again for the sloppiness of this. Limited time and gotta run.

icantflyjets1

Anthropic is absolutely profitable on inference, they have a 44 billion ARR currently and it’s growing. Major tech CTO’s are flocking to them. Your perspective is outdated and wrong.

DiggWuzBetter

Mine does, the CTO posts leaderboards of both Cursor spend and Claude Code Premium extra usage, where a dev spending more is considered good. Not actual customer value/impact delivered, just how fast you’re using spending. Highly incentivizes just always using the most expensive model, asking Claude/Cursor about things you already know the answer to, having really long running sessions to maximize context size, asking Claude/Cursor to analyze vast amounts of logs, etc. The more wasteful the better, as the founders are all-in on AI, and maximizing your token usage is considered good, full stop.

Assistant-Manager

I’m so torn on this one. A lot of what I find online seems very promising. But the one red flag for me is I asked one of my friends who’s a CTO in a Swedish semi conductor start up and he says he’s never heard of them.

Brilliant_Voice1126

Would love to see you rake AMFN next for their pure hopium on fusion, no prototype, no permits, led by crooks, and a ufologist for a CTO.

babyd42

you should probably mention Lisa Su used to be the CTO of the company this used to be under (Everscale) before they spun it out on its own... Also they just announced 1.8M more shares, expect a 10% drop Monday. I'm going big into this one, it's a game changer. Memory while powered off? Edge AI is the next trade, hence why Blackberry is also on fire right now.

habfranco

Grok has zero use in enterprise world. No CTO would ever risk allowing agentic use with it. It will always have marginal consumer use, for shit and giggles.

dorkstar1

SpaceX targets June 12 IPO on Nasdaq under $SPCX at $1.75T valuation. Musk holds 85.1% voting power as CEO, CTO, and Chairman. Q1 revenue hits $4.69B with $4.28B net loss If this is not scam , what else is

NotMe357

"BREAKING: SpaceX targets June 12 IPO on Nasdaq under $SPCX at $2T valuation. Musk holds 85.1% voting power as CEO, CTO, and Chairman. Q1 revenue hits $4.69B with $4.28B net loss"

MaterialGuy007

NVDA CTO prob made a false statement saying companies are making more money than AI investment - we hv yet to hear from someone?  AI is not affordable!!!!

TouchGrassRedditor

>$1.75 trillion valuation >Musk would remain CEO, CTO, and chairman I could not possibly be any further out, holy shit

LankyGuitar6528

Amazing timing. I've been training my AI to act like a mini Bloomberg terminal. It's scraping SEC data and 2 seconds before I read your post it fired this to me: **May 18, 2026 three top officers ALL sold simultaneously:** * **Susan Li (CFO):** \~$5.6M across 7 lots at $604-$611 * **Andrew Bosworth (CTO):** \~$4.8M across 8 lots at same price range * **Javier Olivan (COO):** \~$893K across 5 smaller lots **Combined: \~$11M+ in coordinated officer selling on a single day** — and that's just the top three. No buying. Zero insider open-market purchases.

Rich-Kaleidoscope-12

You’re right, it’s a lot of trial and error not just at this level. However look at the company as a whole, I search for companies with a product not an idea, who uses the product, is it tied in to other things? Example: GPUS has bitcoin in its bank, if the value of BTC drops so does their cash at hand. If BTC is 🚀 they will follow, There’s a lot of penny stocks that rely on the big guys to do well specially NVDA. I was in ABAT and shifted over to USEG @ .73 in April sold at 1.23, and waited I’m now back in at .89. I looked at USEG as having a physical product, helium, and contract at hand (5m in the UK) even though their financials were garbage due to them shutting down the oil refinery to expand their helium. Once that plant is done and the contract is executable they should hit target of 1.6-2.0 but it’s speculation. So that’s the risk. I guess what I’m saying is, don’t just research on where the company is now, look at what affects it and where the market could be headed. Also look at their leadership. New CTO new COO? A new board member could be joining to prove something depending on their background. If they come from a big tech they probably got let go, or made enough money to make this their new project. If they came from nowhere or somewhere small they are excellent and want to prove they can grow it OR dad cashed in a favor. Got to do your research. But the volatility of these small stocks is so fast, you got to do it on the fly and sometimes throw it in on black and hope it hits. CXAI is my double 00 right now and killing it, up 30% and climbing. In a nutshell I practice the research by looking at these companies that do well and see what was the factor on why they went up and then look for future ones following those footsteps. lol 😅 I feel like I’m rambling, over caffeinated! Have a good one!

TheSquirrelCuisine

I love that you did this because this should have been part of the real post. I put $100 on Lordstown Motors beccause the CTO was a friend of mine and I wanted to see that company do well. Well they didnt and I learned something about investing that day. Last time I checked 100 turned into $7. lol Oh well.

Brilliant_Voice1126

Oh is that so? Not one fucking piece of data has come out of yours. I have proven my thesis. it is is the 10k. it is in public tweets from the CTO that he is a UFOlogist. You say they have prototypes, they have proof. Where is it? You're the one coming up fucking short. Make fun of the grok link, it has primary sourcing for everything, including his literal books on how he believes the martians existed but blew themselves up with nuclear bombs. The guy is a psycho. Hawkins narrowly dodging an SEC violation is on the public record. He was back dating options to give stocks to his buddies and skated out of it by the skin of his teeth. You got grifters, you got crackpots, and still, not a single shred of evidence that these guys have a working model - because they don't, because it's near impossible. If fusion is going to originate from anywhere it will be from the Ignition lab at Lawrence Livermore. Not the basement of a UFOlogist.

Brilliant_Voice1126

Oh, so it’s good and normal for a business CTO to be a UFOlogist? That’s a good sign? Where did I say any single false thing? No working model No prototype No proof. Just the word of a guy who thinks the govt is out to get him because he believes in antigravity and martians. At a certain point, you can’t call these mere personal attack but actual devastating liabilities.

imunfair

> What are you talking about lol?? He’s the CEO, CTO, and Chairman of the company Gwynne Shotwell runs the company, you could take Elon out of the equation and it will function just as well or better than it does now.

trix_is_for_kids

What are you talking about lol?? He’s the CEO, CTO, and Chairman of the company

fack-the-suits

If openAI fails, every CEO/CTO of companies on azure will get fired and there will be massive sour taste that could potentially lose MSFT their vendor lock-in. Microsoft is garbage and relies on vendor lock in for their entire business, if they were competing in a purely “best product” environment, they would lose on literally every product offering. Azure is so fucking garbage

shasta747

So my company had early access to Anthropic's Mythos for free trial, only a few had this access so to avoid being doxxed (my gay manager might be on here LOL) I wouldn't say the name. Long story short, Anthropic's quote for Mythos comes today and it so fucking expensive the office of CTO decided to not buy it, and say if lower tier models have 80% of what Mythos has, they're okay with that, being from OpenAI/Google/... Whoever can time this bubble will be a living legend.

funfun151

They present at battery shows frequently, their CTO has a substantial pedigree and patent hoard. Amprius are the only other pure play battery company worth bothering with IMO.

Dick_Indadert

AST Earnings? What earnings are you referring to? Numerous times they made 'forward looking statements' about micron production, satellite production, satellite launches and are way behind, and keep missing big their sat production, sat shipping, and launch schedules. The reddit AST mob cant stand anyone who points this out. The real question is, is current CEO the right person to drive production/operations/profitability, or should be really be CTO. I started selling calls on my position to get some money out, if there is nice rip I am going to sell ITM calls and probably unload some stock. I have been holding for a couple of years. This is not a lottery play for me. Just an investment I thought had potential but I am becoming concerned my AST money is tied up and I am missing out on the chip/memory/photonics run. My guess Monday after close is another miss and carefully worded delay of sat production (their sats are large, and they claim for economic reasons they need to launch 3 or 4 stacked a time but seem to have a stacking problem). If the price moves I bet AST dilutes again soon and the price tanks. I have been up and down this ride many times. Monday I am buying calls on quantum/photonics stocks

vassadar

Made me wonder who come up with these metrics. A CTO or a senior director should push back LOC by default.

Opening-Sundae5893

I’m also curious about Cursor. A good friend of mine just accepted a position as their new CTO a few weeks back. He said it is his dream job and told me their growth pattern is absolutely crazy. Fastest growing company ever??? WTF. Being acquired by SpaceX for 60B as a retainer to they can’t sell for a predetermined time. If they don’t buy, SpaceX will pay 10B. You can’t buy their stock because it’s not a publicly traded company. Will SpaceX hurt or help this company with their upcoming IPO. Is it too bloated.

ntheijs

Infrastructure nerd here. AWS’ market share didn’t change. Cloud spend is going up because of AI Our FinOps guy looked like his mistress showed up at his front door when he saw the AI cloud spend this quarter. Looked exactly like our CTO when accounting asked why there was a Hong Kong expense on a trip to Tijuana. He’s a global thinker.

jonneh

**Ex-OpenAI CTO says Altman misled her on AI safety** *On Wednesday, the jury watched a video deposition from Murati, who left OpenAI in 2024 and now leads the AI startup Thinking Machines Lab. Murati testified that Altman told her OpenAI’s legal team had determined a new AI model did not require review from the company’s deployment safety board. When asked whether Altman was being truthful, Murati answered flatly: “No”.* *Murati said she then consulted with Jason Kwon, who served as OpenAI’s general counsel before becoming chief strategy officer, and found “a misalignment” between Kwon’s account and Altman’s. She ultimately ensured the model underwent board review herself.* If we ever get a Skynet my money is on OpenAI to be the genesis of it.

Thebaxxxx

Smart money got in poet real early and stayed. Youve gotta understand the product. Nvda jumped before AI mostly due to millens and genz growing old enough to explain to boomers what a fucking graphics card is. To them it was just this alien thing, a scam. Poet makes chips and has the same CEO who was CTO of a company that developed low nm capabilities, nvda's bread and butter. You, genz and millens, are now the new boomers. You dont fucking understand ai data centers or how they work. Youre like a boomer looking a MOBO fuckin clueless as shit. Good riddence.

mx5plus2cones

I worked in tech for over 30 years. I was briefly forced into retirement 4 years ago when my last employer was acquired and the new management got rid of most of the old senior management team and I was one of 2 remaining senior directors from the old company. They made my life hell and pushed me from a technical role to a pure management role working with the biggest doofuses that was trying to get me fired. I ended up getting 2 of them fired by stepping aside and letting them try to run the project and waited until they failed miserably at it. They tried getting rid of me so they wouldn't have to pay me by bronze parachute package, but I kept fighting back. And I made it and vested the majority of my stock and qualified for my extra bonus. As soon as they realized they had pay it, they let me go with the package and about 6 months of severance and a year's worth of medical coverage.. I quickly sold all of the company stock when it was still around $14-15/share... Currently it sits at $4. During the 4 years I tried s bunch of things. I was volunteer coach on my daughter's high school robotics team. Met a lot of good people (other parents) and we were able to get the to world champs after several years of a drought. 3/4 times. They did great this year long after my kid graduated from hs. I also spent a lot of time going back to school. Yes, I took some networking classes and some AWS classes to just learn, but the fun classes were Automotive technology, engine diagnostics, and Autobody shop and Refinishing. I spent a lot of time in the shop learning how to fix cars, learning every smog rule in our state to see what I could get away with my own track cars, and I repainted 2 of my shitboxes. It was a lot of fun, but at the end of the day I really appreciated my old software career which was a lot less physically demanding... It's not easy to paint a car well, a lot of people like me simply don't have the talent to do it really well, and yet the people that do it very well, aren't necessarily paid well for it despite the demand for it. That and about 4 years of goofing around while the rest of my peers still need to work for a living... Last year I ended up taking up a job that a CTO offered by invite, to work as an individual contributor AI engineer working directly for him... I'm paid about the same as I was as a senior director at the previous job, don't need to deal with people, and have my own lab to run research and prototypes using AI to rapidly develop products, and when the prototypes are done, I throw it over the fence and have the product team figure out how to commercialize it without needing to do any production/product support when it goes live...Then I pickup another project from the CTO to work on with AI, and rinse and repeat. Part of the job involves streamline the product development lifecycle so I spend a good portion of my time helping create Agentic AI bots that do most of the heavy lifting, so the only thing I mainly need to do is a lot of hardware integration just so the bots can connect and interact with the physical devices and systems to do a lot of the embedded software. It's crazy shit, that admittedly I was very skeptical could be done with AI 4 years ago... But now, although the generated agentic AI bot code is far from perfect, it's not bad, not a heaping pile of mess that many people claim it is, and frankly I have not hand written a single line of code since I started this job last March, and we have already come up with about 5 products doing it this way with way faster time to market than the rest of the company, which is why the rest of the company hates us and view us as a threat. My hours arent bad, I don't need really need the salary, but as someone that's always enjoyed working, I just didn't like staying home and working on my cars all day and really don't like to travel, go on vacation, have any sort of drinking or dining fetish, and my kid is already in college. It's nice to go into an office, and see people interact with people, build stuff, and work under the conditions you want to, not because you have to. I think part of being more financially independent give you options. It's not about necessary quitting and not working, it's more about working the way you want. I have no desire to climb the corporate laddar, so I'm no longer perceived as a threat to a lot of people who still want to . And frankly, if they want to , good for them. I don't want to travel, kiss a customer's ass, stay up working 50-60 hours during a product launch, where an electronic dog leash that gets paged when systems go down, and constantly get sucked into meeting after meeting of executive summary, burn down charts, gantt charts... Been there, done that.

luvz

Depends if you want to believe Redditors or CTO’s.

mx5plus2cones

On thing you cannot count on in the US is healthcare expenses . Insurance from the ACA, if it survives, is anything but cheap if you earn a decent wage. And healthcare costs is one of those things that is incredibly expensive. I have a medical condition that requiements me to get a colonoscopy every year and a MRI every year or 2. With a negotiated rate, the colonscopy is about $25,000 and the MRI is about $15,000. So right out of the bat, if I had to pay out of pocket, that's $40k/year. People say, well you can get it cheaper in mexico, thailand, taiwan etc etc. Well, if this s routine checkup, yes. But if this is a routine checkup, I wouldn't be doing this every year. Basically, I have a genetic condition that is guaranteed 100$ colon cancer, and doxtors found out about this when I was early 30ies. Before that I don't drink, dont' smoke, no drugs, and for the most part eat healthy no soda, no excessive sugary snacks, lots veggies, lots of white meat and fish, and red meat sparingly. Sorry, something caused your DNA to mutate because nobody else in familial ancestory or your sibling has it and you're considered a "spontatneous mutation". So basically while most people get their colonscopy in their 50ies and find many 1 or 2 polyps... Doctors found over 1000 polyps in my colon, which basically meant taking the entire thing out. Well I was lucky, because if you take the entire thing out, normally they create a little button for you in front and you get to wear a bag the rest of your life...For me, I had an option they take most of it out and leave the last 5 inches so I can more of less function the same way. But in doing so, that last 5 inches will continue to grow shit, but instead of 1000, it;'s more like 20-30/year. So every year I need to go see Mr. Assman, so he can go remove the 20-30 things that grow in there so they don't develop into cancer, which is guaranteed. Cost aside, it's just annoying as fuck to prep for a colonscopy, drinking that awful fluid, shitting the entire day, and then not being eat for 48 hours before and then after because they also need me to swallow a pill camera to check the rest of my GI track. You're not going to be able to do this at 1/4 the cost in mexico. And if you go to a country where there is universal coverage, you'll be waiting forever to find a specialist that does this, again it needs to be done every year. Here in the states, don't bother if you have a preexisting condition with getting on an HMO plan or with a high deductible HSA plan. And the you are left with a PPO plan which frankly doesn't matter if you pick the bronze, silver, gold, or platinum plan... The diffence between all 4 is the lower tier plan is you pay lower monthly premiums but have higher deductible and out of pocket costs...The platinum plan you pay higher monthly premium but lower out of pocket expenses...But if you do these special procedures, you're going to hit the maximum out of pocket expense anyway, so you end up paying about the same regardless of which plan you pick.. The monthly premimum and out of pocket expenses total about $15k/year or a $10/year saves versus without insurance and goes up with age. Yes, there is such a thing such as mediCal which is free medical coverage, but that only is a free option if you have close to nothing in your savings account, and then you are fully dependent on the social benefits of the US. MRIs, are not better. Simple procedure, but again around $15k out of pocket without insurance. Then let's talk about dental. Fortunately for me, my teeth are pretty decent. But some people dealt a shitty hand, like my GF, just has bad teeth. She brushes all the time, doesn't eat sugary shit, and yet still manages to get severe tooth decay. Dental is one of those things that royally suck in the US, even if you have insurance. Insurance while cheap, maybe $50/month covers very little, usually about $1000-2000 maximum coverage a year. Getting a filling these days cost a few hundred, getting a crown a thousand, and implants, let's not even talk about that. You can try to go to mexico and get it done, like she did , to save money, only for the dentist down their to royally botch things up and caused more damage that good, which is why she ended up needing to get about $20k worth of implants back here. I estimate that both me and my GF's healthcare burn rate is about $25k-40k/year (insurance premiums + copays + out of pocket expenses). There's insurance costs associated with my kid and her kids, but the assumption is when they grow up, they will have their own insurance. There was a period of time when I early retired from tech 4 years ago and that was pretty much my out of pocket healthcare costs for everyone. But as of last year, not that I really needed to work, I went back to work by invite of a CTO to work on AI, as a personal interest, and one of the side benefits (besides a pretty good paycheck that I really don't need, stock grants that are worthless right now) was pretty darn good PPO medical insurance where my total expense for myself and my kid is close less than $1000/year, leaving only my GF's dental costs of a few thousand. Huge huge savings by being on a company sponsored healthcare plan. It's expensive to get sick here in the US. It's even more expensive if you are born with a pre-existing condition. In fact, given everything that happened concerning my medical condition, the followup divorce from it, the detour I was forced to take when some asshole coworker stole my project while on medical leave....I seriously thought about doing the 180 degree reverse and driink heavily, smoke heavily, do drugs heavily, and eat high sugary snacks and food and totally fuck up my health since it couldn't be really fucked up any more and my health care costs to deal with it all would still be the same, lol.

mx5plus2cones

I dont know, but I bought my McLaren when I was forced into early retirement at my last tech job as a senior director 4 years ago. I was invited back to work by a CTO of the competitor working directly for him as an individual contributor working on AI....paid roughly the same as before... I didnt need the extra paycheck...The personal goal is to help bring to market products faster than my previous company....and put them out of business....😈😈😈

bzl33

I'm a LLM bear but my point is it needs to play out first. There is no catalyst to indicate usage dropping yet. Then if these companies all IPO, that'll be a positive catalyst for the AI narrative. > Companies are starting to see AI usage costs pile up. This isn’t getting better soon as the energy supply issue gets worse. Yeah I agree but the corporations all need to overshoot their usage. The Uber CTO acknowledged this but others haven't as much.

DirtyRottenBiscuit

RDDT revising active user count after discovering half of users are bots who don't engage in advertising. They can say they fired CTO to minimize damage.

AlabamaSky967

CFO did not resign. They promoted a recent hire to CTO and moved old CTO to some other position. It's an upgrade situation

laserskydesigns

I've had a former GE CTO tell me the issue is the sodium batteries are extremely heavy currently, but that doesn't mean they can't figure that side out. I'm balls deep on complete lithium extraction from Brine water currently ( DLE + conversion), we're working on series B. I think the US is moving into lithium battery production not out, at least for the next decade or so. Oil booms only last so long from my perspective, but so much of this is riding on where the battery tech is going. Plenty of room for lithium and sodium batteries from my veiw

mx5plus2cones

So when I was briefly retired from tech for 4 years, I was taking a bunch of fun classes at the local community college. Autobody shop, autopaint and restoration...welding...and some basic accounting and bookkeeping, just for the hell of it. I did about a year's worth of classes in a few week... Professor Claude was a excellent study aid. One of the early assignments was completing a balance sheet ... It was also my first time using Claude with OpenOffice... [https://photos.app.goo.gl/Y5Mx3Ry1do9KTHPd9](https://photos.app.goo.gl/Y5Mx3Ry1do9KTHPd9) But man, after seeing what it could...I went right out early retirement and went right back into tech working on AI with a CTO of a startup doing a lot of very interesting projects in the automoative space. And it's only gotten better...Way better. Our software development pipeline.... Vibe coding was a year ago. Most of it is agentic , spec driven development now. I haven't hand written a line of code myself in about 2 years. And we haven't had a need to hire as many engineers/QA/or for that matter program managers and product managers. It won't replace all jobs. For example, I deal with a lot of on device prototyping with hardware , connectivity, and automotive that requires someone to be phsyically working on the systems with the AI assisted software. BUT, it definitely is a new world out there. Frankly, we don't need as many white collar workers anymore to do much of the work. Just last month, I wanted to to have and OBDII scan tool for my Mclaren to resert the service indicator light, that in the past requires a factory scan tool because it's a feature that is available only on the vendor specific side, not generic OBDII. A factory scan tool to do this is $7000, my Launch X431 Pro is about $1500 and requires a $400/year annual subscription. The better Autel tool is $2500 +$800/year subscription. I simply hooked up a OBDII Y adapter, connected my scan tool on one end of the Y, and a CAN bus to USB dongle to the other side of the adapter, got it setup with claude, and wrote up a spec that had claude listen on the CAN bus reording the traffic, as I used the my Launch scan tool to go through the OBDII interface to reset the service light. Claude captured the entire CAN trace, and generated a brand new Python app to do the exact same thing as my $1500 scan tool with a $400/year subscription... in about 20 minutes. Sure it was a little buggy at first, and dog slow. And I barely know Python, but after dorking around with it for a bit longer and making minor modifications, I had a duplicate OBDII scantool in a few hours, which without AI would have taken me weeks to figure out myself... And because of it, I don't need to pay the $400/year annual subscription fee for my OBDII scan tool moving forward. This is exactly why a lot of the software company's stock is tanking out of fear. For some things (not all things), you don't need to buy the pre-packaged software anymore...

PrinceDX

Sorry champ. Even as a director I still have a CTO I report to and I’ve been on a hiring freeze since July 2025. The push I’ve seen in the industry is for more offshore with AI support. You have an engineering degree so you are going to have to make yourself standout by laser focusing a specific area. AI is the money maker right now and a ton of devs use AI but they don’t build AI. I’m too busy trying hit release dates and send clients their machines back to even really have time to up skill myself. If you can get some certifications I’d imagine you’d find something quicker than you think.

Singularity-42

Axios out here clutching pearls because Uber's CTO blew his AI budget. Bro that's a forecasting L not an economics story. Compute per useful output is still falling off a cliff. NVDA cooked, stay long.

FearlessTrader

I was holding about $10k worth of RDDT till last week on which I was up about 10%. Sold because of the CTO’s departure but I have a feeling I sold too early 🤔

luvz

Compared to what? Nobody likes ticket systems. And nobody cares that mid level office people make rhymes about it. No CTO ever got shitcanned for choosing ServiceNOW. And every current CTO knows that when they’re getting pitched the decks from competitors. Follow the money, not the memes.

No-Newspaper-7693

What I'm saying is that this post is about two AI products. You're talking about it like there's an AI product and a non-AI product. Figma is an AI product specifically made for designers to try to bridge some of the gap with engineers. Claude Design is basically the other way around, helping engineers do more design. Figma was once not AI heavy, but that isn't the product as it exists today. Everything they've added for the past few years revolves around AI. I use Figma everyday, but also I recognize that a large chunk of the CTO's that pay for their company's Figma seats will choose to drop it and tell everyone to use Claude Design instead. It is the same way that a large chunk of CTO's choose Microsoft Teams over drastically superior chat tools like Slack. Claude Design can't be used for all of them, and it will be used in a lot of places where it shouldn't, but that isn't going to prevent it from getting used anyway.

Kind-Armadillo-2340

They hired the new CTO as an EVP 3 months ago (source is LinkedIn). I’m pretty sure they’ve been planning this since then.

getbentspez

More ads, more bots and the CTO is leaving. Smells like calls

CrustyBappen

The poor CTO and team at the whim of the dogshit the CEO and product team make them build

CommunismDoesntWork

Here's a list of sources that all confirm Elon is an engineer, and the chief engineer at SpaceX: # Statements by SpaceX Employees **Tom Mueller** Tom Mueller is one of SpaceX's earliest employees. He served as the Propulsion CTO from 2002 to 2019. He's regarded as one of the foremost spacecraft propulsion experts in the world and owns many patents for propulsion technologies. >Space.com: During your time working with Elon Musk at SpaceX, what were some important lessons you learned from each other?   >   >**Mueller:** Elon was the best mentor I've ever had. Just how to have drive and be an entrepreneur and influence my team and really make things happen. He's a super smart guy and he learns from talking to people. He's so sharp, he just picks it up. When we first started he didn't know a lot about propulsion. He knew quite a bit about structures and helped the structures guys a lot. Over the twenty years that we worked together, *now he's practically running propulsion there because he's come up to speed* and he understands how to do rocket engines, which are really one of the most complex parts of the vehicle. *He's always been excellent at architecting the whole mission, but now he's a lot better at the very small details of the combustion process.* Stuff I learned over a decade-and-a-half at TRW he's picked up too. [Source](https://www.space.com/tom-mueller-impulse-space-mira-spacecraft) ​ >Not true, I am an advisor now. Elon and the Propulsion department are leading development of the SpaceX engines, particularly Raptor. I offer my 2 cents to help from time to time" [Source](https://twitter.com/lrocket/status/1099411086711746560?s=20) ​ >We’ll have, you know, a group of people sitting in a room, making a key decision. And everybody in that room will say, you know, basically, “We need to turn left,” and Elon will say “No, we’re gonna turn right.” You know, to put it in a metaphor. And that’s how he thinks. He’s like, “You guys are taking the easy way out; we need to take the hard way.”   >   >And, uh, I’ve seen that hurt us before, I’ve seen that fail, but I’ve also seen— where nobody thought it would work— it was the right decision. It was the harder way to do it, but in the end, it was the right thing. [Source](https://streamable.com/4o1k6d) ​ **Kevin Watson:**  Kevin Watson developed the avionics for Falcon 9 and Dragon. He previously managed the Advanced Computer Systems and Technologies Group within the Autonomous Systems Division at NASA's Jet Propulsion laboratory. ​ >Elon is brilliant. He’s involved in just about everything. He understands everything. If he asks you a question, you learn very quickly not to go give him a gut reaction.   >   >He wants answers that get down to the fundamental laws of physics. One thing he understands really well is the physics of the rockets. He understands that like nobody else. The stuff I have seen him do in his head is crazy.   >   >He can get in discussions about flying a satellite and whether we can make the right orbit and deliver Dragon at the same time and solve all these equations in real time. It’s amazing to watch the amount of knowledge he has accumulated over the years. Source (Ashlee Vance's Biography). ​ **Garrett Reisman** Garrett Reisman ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrett_Reisman)) is an engineer and former NASA astronaut. He joined SpaceX as a senior engineer working on astronaut safety and mission assurance. ​ >“I first met Elon for my job interview,” Reisman told the USA TODAY Network's Florida Today. “All he wanted to talk about were technical things. We talked a lot about different main propulsion system design architectures.   >   >“At the end of my interview, I said, ‘Hey, are you sure you want to hire me? You’ve already got an astronaut, so are you sure you need two around here?’ ” Reisman asked. “He looked at me and said, ‘I’m not hiring you because you’re an astronaut. I’m hiring you because you’re a good engineer.’ ”   >   >“He’s obviously skilled at all those different functions, but certainly what really drives him and where his passion really is, is his role as CTO,” or chief technology officer, Reisman said. “Basically his role as chief designer and chief engineer. That’s the part of the job that really plays to his strengths." ([Source](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/05/26/spacex-how-elon-musk-took-idea-cusp-history/5257977002/)) ​ >What's really remarkable to me is the breadth of his knowledge. I mean I've met a lot of super super smart people but they're usually super super smart on one thing and he's able to have conversations with our top engineers about the software, and the most arcane aspects of that and then he'll turn to our manufacturing engineers and have discussions about some really esoteric welding process for some crazy alloy and he'll just go back and forth and his ability to do that across the different technologies that go into rockets cars and everything else he does. ([Source](https://youtu.be/GNG6ZzDh9C8?t=390)) ​ **Josh Boehm** Josh Boehm is the former Head of Software Quality Assurance at SpaceX. >Elon is both the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Officer of SpaceX, so of course he does more than just ‘some very technical work’. He is integrally involved in the actual design and engineering of the rocket, and at least touches every other aspect of the business (but I would say the former takes up much more of his mental real estate). Elon is an engineer at heart, and that’s where and how he works best. ([Source](https://www.quora.com/Does-Elon-Musk-do-some-very-technical-work-code-design-etc-at-SpaceX/answer/Josh-Boehm?ch=10&share=8dc8bc2e&srid=Xuwj)) # Statements by External Observers **Robert Zubrin** Robert Zubrin ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Zubrin)) is an aerospace engineer and author, best known for his advocacy of human exploration of Mars. >When I met Elon it was apparent to me that although he had a scientific mind and he understood scientific principles, he did not know anything about rockets. Nothing. That was in 2001. By 2007 he knew everything about rockets - he really knew everything, in detail. You have to put some serious study in to know as much about rockets as he knows now. This doesn't come just from hanging out with people. ([Source](https://www.wired.co.uk/article/whats-driving-elon-musk)) **John Carmack** John Carmack ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carmack)) is a programmer, video game developer and engineer. He's the founder of Armadillo Aerospace and current CTO of Oculus VR. >Elon is definitely an engineer. He is deeply involved with technical decisions at spacex and Tesla. He doesn’t write code or do CAD today, but he is perfectly capable of doing so. ([Source](https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1038832124747571200?s=19)) ​ **Eric Berger** Eric Berger is a space journalist and [Ars Technica's senior space editor](https://arstechnica.com/author/ericberger/). >True. Elon is the chief engineer in name and reality. ([Source](https://twitter.com/SciGuySpace/status/1265080905854574592?s=20)) ​ **Christian Davenport** Christian Davenport is [the Washington Post's defense and space reporter](https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/christian-davenport/) and the author of "Space Barons". The following quotes are excerpts from his book. >He dispatched one of his lieutenants, Liam Sarsfield, then a high-ranking NASA official in the office of the chief engineer, to California to see whether the company was for real or just another failure in waiting.   >   >Most of all, he was impressed with Musk, who was surprisingly fluent in rocket engineering and understood the science of propulsion and engine design. Musk was intense, preternaturally focused, and extremely determined. “This was not the kind of guy who was going to accept failure,” Sarsfield remembered thinking. ​ # Statements by Elon Himself >Yes. The design of Starship and the Super Heavy rocket booster I changed to a special alloy of stainless steel. I was contemplating this for a while. And this is somewhat counterintuitive. It took me quite a bit of effort to convince the team to go in this direction. ([Source](https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/rockets/a25953663/elon-musk-spacex-bfr-stainless-steel/)) ​ >Interviewer: You probably don't remember this. A very long time ago, many, many, years, you took me on a tour of SpaceX. And the most impressive thing was that you knew every detail of the rocket and every piece of engineering that went into it. And I don't think many people get that about you.   >   >Elon: Yeah. I think a lot of people think I'm kind of a business person or something, which is fine. Business is fine. But really it's like at SpaceX, Gwynne Shotwell is Chief Operating Officer. She manages legal, finance, sales, and general business activity. And then my time is almost entirely with the engineering team, working on improving the Falcon 9 and our Dragon spacecraft and developing the Mars Colonial architecture. At Tesla, it's working on the Model 3 and, yeah, so I'm in the design studio, take up a half a day a week, dealing with aesthetics and look-and-feel things. And then most of the rest of the week is just going through engineering of the car itself as well as engineering of the factory. Because the biggest epiphany I've had this year is that what really matters is the machine that builds the machine, the factory. And that is at least two orders of magnitude harder than the vehicle itself. ([Source](https://www.ycombinator.com/future/elon/)) 

tommytwolegs

This site has been dogshit as long as I've been using it. It's only momentum that has been carrying it forward. I'm pretty sure a toothbrush could have handled the CTO role about as well as this guy did, but maybe he was hamstrung by the CEO, who knows.

christopher_mtrl

Reddit had a CTO ? Hard to believe.

cromwest

The CTO did just quit 

FearlessTrader

I sold my RDDT shares because of the CTO’s departure. Not sure if a stupid move or not. I bought it at quite a low price, was up 10% on them even with today’s dip.

xXFoxyGrandpaXx

He didn’t quit, he’s filling a different role still with the company. New CTO has more experience. It’s just restructuring. I hope

LuBrooo

They had a CTO?

AlgernusPrime

Nothing of that sort, it’s that the CTO is stepping down from management into a fellow role. Fellow is the highest level in engineering. Sounds like he enjoys the tech and not about managing others. I did the same shit but kinda like a Wendy shift manager to flipping patties.

Ahamadrayasbaboon

Could be a lot of things. Maybe he needed more time with his family. Maybe the CTO gig had him spend a certain number of days at a specific location that he doesn’t like and the new one doesn’t. There are lots of reasons.  With that said, it is concerning without knowing why. 

paulfromatlanta

>> one week before the earnings. He was CTO, my guess is failure to stop AI agents scraping the site without paying.

Medical-Shoulder-337

The CTO is responsible for managing bot levels

GoZukkYourself

CTO resigned due to the custom emoji scandal.

punksandkisses

What I don’t understand is how their Chief Marketing Officer, Jim Squires, has only posted five times on LinkedIn. Why does the former CTO have more online presence than the current CMO?

touuuuhhhny

New CTO was 9 year at Meta, good. Including: "[2017-2022] Head of engineering for Video Machine Learning in Facebook App. **Responsible for AI/ML, content recommendations, content understanding,** integrity, publisher/creator success and ecosystem efforts powering Facebook Video, Audio, Music and Gaming. **Scaled video to be 50%+ time spent on Facebook** and a multi billion $$ creator/publisher economy. "

420fanman

Are people on this sub smoking something that I’m not? A CTO at a tech company apparently has no impact on revenue which is driven by….the success of its operations…and their operation involves…..tech. The CTO is directly responsible for the implementation of Reddit’s AI search function, the overall performance of the app/website. They work hand in hand with marketing and sales to drive revenue. If it were a more traditional business, sure I can see how the CTO is more removed from revenue but when you work at a tech firm, the CTO is ingrained in all aspects.

Lampedeir

He's still working at reddit though, in a technical role too, just not as CTO. So probably he just didn't want to be CTO anymore otherwise he'd be fired or joined a different company.

blachat

All good, just was expecting pics of the CTO rawdogging a cactus so now I'm disappointed

Luuigi

The CTO is in any way one of the last C level people to be made responsible. Either he just didnt like the technical direction or he could also genuinely want smth else

blachat

Can someone more re-re than me explain why this is tagged NSFW? I expected pics of the CTO rawdogging a cactus which is what a lot of investors feel like doing rn

peepeedog

The CTO isn't responsible for revenue.

Mannipx

Why is this NSFW. CTO going away is good. 

timwangdev1

Just looked up the CTO, I just sold all my shares

420fanman

By deduction - If it were good results, the CTO wouldn’t be stepping down. They’re likely trying to distance themselves from the company either to protect themselves or the firm is protecting themselves. Either way, not a good look.

hospitalizedzombie

It’s highly unlikely that they would announce the departure of CTO one week before the earnings if the earnings were good. They know this news will move the stock down without earnings posted. If the earnings were good they’d simply announce it during the call itself as just a change of management and the effects would be minimal. Now the optics look like they fired the CTO ahead of bad earnings and they’ll announce a guideline to save face in the earnings itself. Of course they could just be manipulating the stock as well.

brainfreeze3

Maybe i will get that $100 dip buy after all. Yikes. Although I doubt my concerns will be met with this replacement. Unless the new CTO is going to stop the too frequent auto banning and so on

SevereRunOfFate

Their current IT leadership are literally the ex-United Health AI team. I shit you not, sir. Their CTO and his team created the software that got their CEO executed. Now.. they're doing apparel.

Designer_Respect4285

Based on what? Cap ex is going up, that's the only serious historical signal of a top that I'm seeing. Mythos is showing what AI can do, go check the benchmarks and now we have the CTO of Mozilla confirming it found something like 225 vulneabilities, and it finding even one would have been a "red alert". There's no strong evidence that hyperscalers are cutting back, TSM said they are sold out of 3nm chips until 2028 and 2nm until 2029.

Designer_Respect4285

They have had fundamentals change, especially for TSM. You also assume they were priced correctly before the war, TSM is also flat since late Feb. There are also a lot of positive signals. Mozilla CTO announcing today that Mythos finding 277 vulnerabilities in Firefox is showcasing the use cases of AI which will translate into continued demand for semis.

alfred250

My best friend is a CTO that knew nothing about stock, he couldn’t stop talking about how NVDA was the greatest thing ever, founders editions, 3090s. Best entrepreneur i have met so i loaded. I gifted him a 3090 founders edition back then when i made the first 100k on leaps

mx5plus2cones

Well, the key if you really want to.... After you retire from your W2 job, find something that if you actively participate in it, and per IRS rules, losses from that active participation in that activity can be used to offset your ordinary income earned elsewhere. When I took a brief 4 year early retirement from tech in my 40ies, I became an "active" real estate professional managing not only my property but also others and also being an agent (for the purpose of scouting REO and short sales) and short term vacation rentals.. There was a lot of losses that year and it was my lowest AGI I ever had, even when I first started out working full time with a $50k/year W2 paycheck a long time ago. For example, if this is your thing. Lookup "short term rental (STR) tax loophole" (FWIW: i got bored and went back to work last March to work on AI for a CTO...) You know, figuring this out isn't that difficult these days. Just ask Claude or Gemini, and they will give you a bunch of ideas that once only CPA's knew and were hesitant to share unless you paid them for it. Now, you don't need to do this anymore to get the initial Ideas. AI is great.

mx5plus2cones

Well, the key if you really want to.... After you retire from your W2 job, find something that if you actively participate in it, and per IRS rules, losses from that active participation in that activity can be used to offset your ordinary income earned elsewhere. When I took a brief 4 year early retirement from tech in my 40ies, I because an "active" real estate professional managing not only my property but also others and also being an agent (for the purpose of scouting REO and short sales)... There was a lot of losses that year and it was my lowest AGI I ever had, even when I first started out working full time with a $50k/year W2 paycheck a long time ago. For example, if this is your thing. Lookup "short term rental (STR) tax loophole" (FWIW: i got bored and went back to work last March to work on AI for a CTO...)

iShitBloodandCumShit

Executive VP/CTO Mark Paperhandsmaster bought 6k shares at $84.85. Then turned around and sold them all plus an additional 27.1k at 275. Huh. Just like Jensen did when shitvdia was close to 212.

Recoil42

My CTO can beat up your CTO.

thedoommerchant

Our CTO has come out and said as much. You can ligma while I keep on using Figma and collecting a fat salary.

Practical_March2024

u mean the CTO? Chief Tweeting Officer?

Practical_March2024

How is the CTO (Chief Trolling Officer) doing? I am not seeing any outraged comments? Sounds like all quiet on the western front?

TakingtheLin2020

Vibe coding is a straw man. my startup CTO (I submit he’s a 10,000x engineer now) can run and supervise many agents to build architecture that bypasses the lake in many instances and speeds up migrations. This is hyper competition. hits pricing power. Multiples go bye, bye

bzl33

> Uber's CTO told @LauraBratton5 that AI coding tools—particularly Anthropic’s Claude Code—has already maxed out its 2026 AI budget 📈 > “I'm back to the drawing board, because the budget I thought I would need is blown away already,” Neppalli Naga said. Woah...so surprising /s

SlfImpr

Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga says the company's surging use of AI coding tools has maxed out its full-year AI budget just a few months into 2026 [https://www.theinformation.com/newsletters/applied-ai/uber-cto-shows-claude-code-can-blow-ai-budgets](https://www.theinformation.com/newsletters/applied-ai/uber-cto-shows-claude-code-can-blow-ai-budgets)

djollied4444

They're number 1 because they bought all the companies on the leading edge. Then they burned cash on the Metaverse and killed all those projects. They somehow managed to kill the momentum in the industry. So yeah, they're number 1 of a sample size of 1 in a tech their own CTO admitted is growing much slower than they hoped. They're not making money on VR, which is why they're pivoting to AR glasses and AI.

Furbylover

They are prioritizing enterprise use. At my company (mid size tech) our eng teams have limitless tokens. Eventually CFO will want to reign in the cost, but it's a mad mad world at the moment where CTO is basically all-in on leveraging agents and paying whatever we need to until we find a model that works for all teams.

Moist_Inevitable738

If you're bullish on AI buy the infrastructure players. We are still in a huge building phase, there is not enough capacity to serve the current use cases. Look at Claude code downtime. I am a CTO and often struggle to get spot price GPUs in Europe from AWs as they literally don't have a single one free to rent. We have a long way to go as more and more other white collar jobs use the tech mode similar to how devs have for the last few years. Then we have robotics/self driving cars etc etc that will both require insane amounts of edge and datacenter compute.

Xzlk

WDAY cooked cause CTO left for Anthropic? lol

mx5plus2cones

RE: hiring. Unfortunately no. boss is the CTO/cofounder of the company, I work in a research group. I wasn't planning to go back t work when I early retired 4 years ago, but a colleague hooked me up. It wasn't an explicit open position. The good thing about this job is I don't need to deal with managing people and dealing with customer facing/production issues. I work with a group of other people prototyping POC's with AI. When we are done, we throw it over to the product team who then has to figure it out how to productize it and commericialize it and support it. Then I move on to the next POC from the CTO. So we work off his research budget and not the rest of the company. He the research team is only about 7 people, mostly all AI development pipeline. Code is "good enough" for prototypes and POCs and to get investments from clients...

TheoryInttro

Paolo Ardoino, CEO of Tether and CTO of Bitfinex. A tiny company with less than a dozen employees that claims to be one the largest holders of US treasury notes backing the stablecoin Tether that all transactions in bitcoin happens in. Price discovery on Bitfinex and all other exchanges happen when Tether issues more tethers and uses those instead of dollars to "buy" bitcoin and then price gets reported as if the tethers were dollar equivalent because the claim is that the tethers are backed 1:1 with dollars. This is a lie, it's always been a lie, and getting busted for lying and barred from conducting business in New York in a conviction for financial crimes on account of lying should have been the end of using tethers as equal to dollars, but because it props up the scam the exchanges still pretend that tethers are redeemable 1:1 for dollars because they're "backed" by US treasury notes and other bonds. If the numbers they claimed were true they'd be the single largest individual holder of notes, larger than BRK, and they'd need a larger trade desk than BRK just to handle the rollover of notes. They have fewer than a dozen employees and would need more than 250 just to handle bonds. Cantor Fitzgerald handles their only verified actual bonds and that's less than a billion, which means Lutnick is up to his sweaty neck in covering up the scam because there's no way in hell he can avoid knowing the facts as they exist - they're claimed to be the largest private buyer of US treasury bonds and no-one has ever met any person who works at Tether and buys bonds.

cowboylover1

Don't touch it...Since the IPO in 2017, the insiders sold $3.3B in shares and No buys. CEO Evan Spiegel sold $1.7B in shares and CTO Robert Murphy sold $575m in shares. It has a dual corporate share structure; what that means is that both founders, Evan and Robert have 95% voting rights combined. Shareholders have only 5% voting rights. It has 1.7B outstanding shares. Basically it is f.... When James Cramer was asked about it, he said no comment. That meant he considered it a dead totally abused company by insiders. Like I said don't touch it. Recently one activist bought 12 million shares in the $4 area and gave the company guidance step by step to come back from the dead, so let's see whether those two idiots greedy founders agree or not. Even if they agree, I doubt they have the skills to bring the company back from the dead.

Ok_Refuse4160

You’re literally making shit up. Cite your sources dumb fuck. Kevin Watson (developed avionics for falcon 9 and dragon) “Elon is brilliant. He’s involved in just about everything. He understands everything. If he asks you a question, you learn very quickly not to go give him a gut reaction. He wants answers that get down to the fundamental laws of physics. One thing he understands really well is the physics of the rockets. He understands that like nobody else. The stuff I have seen him do in his head is crazy. He can get in discussions about flying a satellite and whether we can make the right orbit and deliver Dragon at the same time and solve all these equations in real time. It’s amazing to watch the amount of knowledge he has accumulated over the years.” Garrett Reisman (former director of space operations at spacex, astronaut) “What's really remarkable to me is the breadth of his knowledge. I mean I've met a lot of super super smart people but they're usually super super smart on one thing and he's able to have conversations with our top engineers about the software, and the most arcane aspects of that and then he'll turn to our manufacturing engineers and have discussions about some really esoteric welding process for some crazy alloy and he'll just go back and forth and his ability to do that across the different technologies that go into rockets cars and everything else he does.” “He’s obviously skilled at all those different functions, but certainly what really drives him and where his passion really is, is his role as CTO. Basically his role as chief designer and chief engineer. That’s the part of the job that really plays to his strengths.” I got more if you want

GlokzDNB

Definitely, hackers are unorganized small parties of people, having AI makes them way more powerful dynamic and organized. Regarding war inflation and crisis - we can look at covid, companies did not reduce cybersec spending due to that crisis. You just can't do that. I can't imagine a reason for CTO / CEO to cut cybersecurity spending. If you get hacked its over, either youre totally screwed or you pay ransom hoping they are fair. All your data and secrets are compromised and sold to competitors, all your credibility is lost. Companies would rather debt themselves to death than risk that.

InvestigatorPlus3229

If it does I’m buying the whole company and you can be the CTO

elgrandorado

COO selling 3% is immaterial. CTO is exercising his shares and selling. Sold more than 20%, but we have no clue as to why he's selling. He's a cofounder in the company and there's many reasons as to why he might want to sell.

reaper527

> You point me to when Huffman sold 20% of his shares, if we're comparing CEOs. no, we're comparing executives. you brought up karp in response to a comment about reddit's CTO and COO offloading a bunch of shares after the company dropped 50-60%.

captainstrange94

You point me to when Huffman sold 20% of his shares, if we're comparing CEOs. The CTO you mention had like 40k shares, which is not a lot to begin with. Huffman has over 500k shares, with a routine planned sales of 18k monthly. Karp on the other hand sold 500k shares last month, 350k shares in Nov 2025, etc.

reaper527

> Holy god RDDT. what an absolute disastrous crash over no news. just because you didn't see the news doesn't mean there is no news. the CTO sold 20% of his reddit shares (and the COO sold 3%). large insider sales aren't exactly a good omen.

reaper527

> If I had more dry powder, now would be the day I would double down on RDDT. their executives would be me than happy to sell it to you. their COO and CTO unloaded a bunch of shares in the last few weeks.

VellyJanta

BREAKING: Polymarket CTO Dixon Yu says they will be opening up a virtual Battleship on the Strait, bet which plot blows up next!

HandsOnTheBible

Its because of the META ruling and insider sales by the CTO