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The Roadmap as a Financial Plan: How to Drive Profitability as a CTO—with Farah Chabchoub, CTO at Worklife

Oct 29, 2025 · 36m

Summary

Host Katerina interviews Farah Shepshup, CTO at WorkLife, on shifting from growth-at-all-costs to profitability. Farah discusses treating roadmaps as financial plans, aligning tech with board goals, and using metrics to balance revenue, satisfaction, and savings. She highlights the importance of reducing maintenance debt, leveraging AI for MVPs, and building resilient leadership teams to ensure sustainable engineering operations.

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