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Sep 12, 2026
James Day HuffGUEST
And you've seen that type of red tape where it's like we put cautionary red tape around the red tape so that you don't even think about crossing that red tape.
James Day HuffGUEST
So in some cases, it's just like the climate and the culture of the company stemming from, let's say, the CTO's office.
James Day HuffGUEST
And so part of the responsibility lands on the CTO's office to really take a hard look at what are the assets that AI could benefit from having access to and what are the access controls that we need to make sure are in place.
James Day HuffGUEST
So that would be kind of a top-down responsibility of whose job is it.
James Day HuffGUEST
The other way to look at it is as ICs It's everybody's job to have a grassroots effort and mindset, a curiosity, ambitious thoughts of if only AI had access to this system for my job, I could do amazing things.
EliHOST
What happens when Mark Zuckerberg does, not just what Mark Zuckerberg does, but what all tech brologarchs do? What happens when he gets rid of this tier of pricing? All of a sudden, your $1,000 a month in agent spend just got 20X'd, 20X'd.
EliHOST
right so if your agent is running your agent currently is running it costs a thousand dollars a month on this particular particular pricing tier he gets rid of that pricing tier it now goes to twenty thousand dollars a month that quick that quick that quick so quick you're spending ten thousand dollars a month it goes to two hundred thousand dollars a month that quick What would that do to your company? What would that do to your organization? What happens as CTO, CIO, VP of IT or whatever else? What if you are not properly managing your spends? What happens if you give your departments or if you give particular team members simply a budget? Look, here is your budget.
EliHOST
You get $1,000 a month to do whatever the hell it is you want to do with it.
EliHOST
You have X amount a month to do whatever.
Kevin WilliamsHOST
doesn't mean that you're beholden to what you built because the sunk cost fallacy isn't as true as it used to be.
Kevin WilliamsHOST
Using that thing as a foundation, realizing that there's new technology in place that can allow you to do something more interesting from there, and not being afraid necessarily to wipe that old workflow off the plate, that's You know, that's acceptable now, whereas previously, like the CTO's head would have exploded when, what do you mean you only use that thing for nine months and now you're doing something else? Well, we learned all the things we needed to learn, and it turned out to be a little bit expensive as far as how to operate it.
Kevin WilliamsHOST
We're going to just tweak it again.
Kevin WilliamsHOST
Now, should you do that with everything? No.
Kevin WilliamsHOST
And the realization that prompting is built right into SQL now.
Kevin WilliamsHOST
I mean, we don't have a lot of SQL dorks who are listening to this show, I don't think, but you could just basically inject a prompt right into Snowflake and transform data that way.
Kevin WilliamsHOST
And that's awesome from a CIO or a CTO perspective because it never leaves your environment.
Kevin WilliamsHOST
You're not risking some middleware where the data might be stored or exposed or whatever it might be.
Ryan DrumhellerHOST
And today's episode is one I've really been looking forward to because we're going to be diving into leadership, fractional executive work, cybersecurity, AI, and the reality of what organizations are actually struggling with underneath the surface.
Ryan DrumhellerHOST
My guest today is Kevin Carlson, a fractional CTO, CISO, executive coach, and a partner at Tech CXO.
Ryan DrumhellerHOST
Kevin has served multiple times as a CTO and CISO across industries in both North America and Europe, and today works directly with organizations navigating growth, AI adoption, leadership development, cybersecurity, and operational scaling.
Ryan DrumhellerHOST
So what makes Kevin's perspective unique is that he operates at the intersection of technology, executive leadership, coaching, and organizational behavior.
Ryan DrumhellerHOST
So I can't wait to explore this conversation and more.
Kevin CarlsonGUEST
Gosh,
Kevin CarlsonGUEST
well, I think...
Kevin CarlsonGUEST
Starting with my very first sort of full-time programming job in the corporate world, I was placed on a little bit of a skunkworks team where there was about a dozen of us working directly for the CTO.
Mark BridgesGUEST
Yeah, I appreciate being back.
AmyHOST
You know, when you were here in March, you were the CTO and now you're the president and soon to be CEO.
AmyHOST
So we will get into that.
AmyHOST
I'm here with my colleague, Noah Ziegler, who loves to talk football.
Mark BridgesGUEST
We've got all kinds of... college football fans in the building.
AmyHOST
Well, when you're not yelling at the TV and telling the dogs what to do, you're at CableLabs.
AmyHOST
So I wanted to talk a little bit about your new role and how moving from the CTO seat to the CEO role kind of changes what you're able to accomplish, especially because you have been there a very long time in the organization, I think 16, 17 years.
AmyHOST
So what are you hoping to accomplish in this role?
Mike KaputHOST
I love that.
Mike KaputHOST
Um, yeah, kind of related, how has this all changed your own job as CTO and the work of the bank's technology team? It seems like there's some [laughs] big changes ahead for our, our friends in technology and IT.
John KowalGUEST
Yeah, it's, it's actually been a, a huge shift in my role, but I'm, I'm really thrilled for it.
John KowalGUEST
Uh, you know, when our CEO started seeing some of the early results of AI, hearing some early positive feedback, yeah, she came to me and said, "I'd like 70% of your time to be dedicated to AI."
Nacho PaulsGUEST
When you're in the corporate world and you're doing, you know, building a, a company and responsible for, um, you know, clients and investors' money, and you have to own up that commitment, and that's what we did.
NathanHOST
And just out of curiosity, do you know who's gonna-- Because, um, Mechanic was head of communications, if I'm not mistaken, and then Luke was CTO and chairman of the board.
NathanHOST
Have you guys already decided who's going to take, um, take the reins?
Bob BurnettGUEST
Yeah.
Bob BurnettGUEST
W-well, um, so, uh, first on the CTO role, uh, Jason Hughes, uh, who has really done the, honestly the vast majority of technical work for the last couple years.
Bob BurnettGUEST
He is the, uh, really inventor of Datum.
Bob BurnettGUEST
He, um, did the back end.
Bob BurnettGUEST
He will be taking the role of CTO for the company.
Jason LeDucHOST
I know a lot of investors will pressure founders to get a co-founder if they don't have one, and that's an additional source of pressure to do that.
Jason LeDucHOST
But I'm curious, what was that first salaried employee hire you did? Was that a CTO? Who is the person you brought on to fill a role?
Rei VardiGUEST
Lead engineer.
Rei VardiGUEST
I said, you know what? Let's dispense with the titles altogether.
Rei VardiGUEST
Lead engineer.
Rei VardiGUEST
CTO is someone who's managing a whole team.
Rei VardiGUEST
When we get to the place where we have a whole team, he'll be CTO.
Rei VardiGUEST
But right now, we need a kick-ass engineer.
JackHOST
Yeah.
JackHOST
And Gabriel's the CTO?
Jorge OrtegaGUEST
Yes.
Jorge OrtegaGUEST
He's the founder of CTO.
Jorge OrtegaGUEST
I'm founder and you could say head of growth.
Jorge OrtegaGUEST
Gabriel's also the founder.
Ravit JainHOST
yeah and after
Abhijit MhetreGUEST
that we are we are proud to say that we have one of the largest r d center this is our boardroom this is where most of the important decisions and all the customer meetings that happen over here This is our CTO, Product Head, and India Head, Prasanna Arikala, with whom you already
Ravit JainHOST
met in San Mateo.
Ravit JainHOST
Yes, exactly.
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