What it's really like to be a female CTO

Sue Nallapeta leads a team of more than 100 engineers as the CTO of Trusted Health, a late-stage startup that is helping to address the nursing shortage, and was named one of Forbes Next Billion Dollar Companies in 2020.

She knew early on in her career that she wanted to be a manager and eventually, an engineering executive, and over the last 15 years, she's led engineering teams at a variety of consumer-facing businesses and marketplaces, including Apartment List, Zoosk (acquired by Spark Networks) and Kodak Gallery (acquired by Shutterfly).

In today’s podcast, we sat down with Sue to talk about her journey to becoming at CTO, and what it's like to lead a large team of mostly male engineers, why she knew from early in her career that she wanted to be a manager vs. an IC, mistakes she made early on as a people manager and how she learned from them, lessons on leading through adversity from her time at a company that eventually went bankrupt and what advice she would give to aspiring female engineering leaders and CTOs.

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