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We sit down with Azhar Zuberi to discuss his unique professional journey from developer to CTO of a startup.\nSegment 1 - Introduce Yourself\nSegment 2 - A little backstory\nWhat would you say was the most important topic or lesson you learned in your schooling when it comes to being a developer?\nHow important was your first job as a developer in defining your coding style/knowledge base?\nWhen first starting out what were the \u2018popular\u2019 technologies that you learned (i.e. angular, bootstrap, wordpress etc)\nSegment 3 - Our connection\nWhat was the reason you decided to choose us (Digital Dynasty Design) when we first started working together?\nWhat is your workflow/process for working with and hiring off site/outsourced developers?\nWhat are the benefits of having a small development team versus increasing funding and hiring a full staff?\nWhat are some of the biggest challenges when have a off site/outsourced development team?\nOur current development process has us using a very base Jquery, Bootstrap, JS, HTML and CSS stack. What were some of the reasons behind this vs using a more robust framework i.e. angular or react?\nSegment 4 - Running a company\nWhat are some additional responsibilities that you were not expecting when transitioning to being a CTO\nWhat do you miss most about being just a contract developer\nAs CTO how important was it to have all those technical skills and years of work in a company and as a contractor\nHow did you learn the business side of your role as CTO and what is the most challenging part for you?\nWeb News -\xa0Incomplete Ecosystems\nWhat is an ecosystem?A collection of software - typically from the same manufacturer - that all compliment each other\nA primary example would be iCloud storing all your contacts and other data from your iPhone for use on your Mac, or on a new iPhone if you need to sync them up\n\nEcosystems have been a key part of people\u2019s workflow for the past few years\nThey\u2019re often a key feature that people look for when they purchasing a device\nApple\u2019s ecosystem stands out in this particular example\n\nThere are a lot of ecosystems out there including: productivity, smarthome, etc.\nExamples of incomplete ecosystems (rough notes/points of reference):\nSamsung has software primarily on the phone, such as Notes, Bixby, Email, etc. but has no clients for PC use, other than things that mirror or use the phone (ie SideSync)\nMicrosoft\u2019s is more focused on productivity (email, contacts, calendar, Cortana), but has no focus on smart home functionality (ie hardware). Windows Phone hardware is basically dead and therefore there is no mobile experience for Windows, with the exception of Android apps (which is a decent solution - but not as integrated as first party)\nAndroid has no full desktop experience (A Pixelbook doesn\u2019t have all the pro software that Windows has, Google Assistant is on Google hardware, but not on Windows 10)\n\nYou can find Azhar via...\nContentlinq Website - www.contentlinq.com\nContact Email - success@contentlinq.com\nLinkedIn - Profile Page\nYou can find us on...\nFacebook\xa0|\xa0Twitter\xa0|\xa0Instagram\nRSS | Patreon | Spotify\nMedium\xa0|\xa0YouTube\xa0|\xa0GitHub\xa0\nReddit