CTO Fellowship
Q3 2021

Evaluate

Building self awareness is the first step toward growth. The Torch Leadership Assessment helps experienced professionals gain clarity on existing strengths and development opportunities.

Coach

During regular 1:1 video sessions, an experienced Torch coach will help the leader build a custom development plan based on their leadership assessment results.

Execute

Leaders then set their own growth goals with the help of their Torch coach. Together, they will define specific actions to track progress and hit leadership development targets.

How it works

Integrate learnings and capture insights for a new leadership future.

Grow

You'll meet with your mentor monthly during your 6-month partnership, to work on your goals and focus areas

Join waitlist

***Thank you for your interest in the CTO Fellowship! Unfortunately we are at capacity for the Q3 2021 cohort, but we would love for you to join the next cohort later this year. Please apply below and we will reach out and make sure you get a spot in the next cohort.***

The CTO Fellowship is a four-week track designed to provide early-stage CTOs with technical resources, guidance and community. The program consists of short weekly sessions with CTOs from top late-stage startups (Mailchimp, LeafLink, Twitch, Gorgias, and more) covering a different theme each week. Topics covered in the program include Goal Setting & Managing Your Engineering Team, Influencing Your Product Roadmap, and Recruiting Technical Talent. The program will also offer technical office hours and roundtables that will allow CTOs to dive deep on specific topics like APIs, Serverless, Cost Optimization, and more. The program is invite only, and designed to benefit all seed-stage startups, regardless of cloud preference.

Date and time:

The fellowship will run from August 4 - 25, 2021 and sessions will be held each Wednesday from 8:30AM PT - 9:30AM PT (unless noted otherwise in the schedule).

Topic

Date & Time

Event

Week 1: August 4
8:30AM PT - 9:30AM PT

Fireside Chat

Hiring and Managing Your Engineering Team

Week 2: August 11
8:30AM PT - 9:30AM PT
OR
9:30AM PT - 10:30AM PT

1:1s
+
Roundtables

Meet the Fellows: 6 minute Ice Breakers with Fellow CTOs and Roundtables

Week 3: August 17 - August 20
(date / time depends on the topic you select)

Thematic Small Group Office Hours with AWS

Week 4: August 25
8:30AM PT - 9:30AM PT

Fireside Chat

How to Influence Your Product Roadmap

Schedule

1:1s + Roundtables

Meet the Fellows: 6 minute Ice Breakers with Fellow CTOs and Roundtables

Thematic Small Group Office Hours with AWS

Hiring and Managing Your Engineering Team

How to Influence Your Product Roadmap

Learn more about the schedule below.

Week 1: August 4
8:30AM PT - 9:30AM PT

Week 2: August 11
8:30AM PT - 9:30AM PT
OR
9:30AM PT - 10:30AM PT

Week 3: August 17-August 20
(date / time depends on the topic you select)

Week 4: August 25
8:30AM PT - 9:30AM PT

By registering, you agree to the AWS Event Terms and Conditions and the AWS Community Codes of Conduct.

Who should attend:

CTOs of Startups that are at the Seed-Stage of Funding

Small Group Technical Office Hours

Fireside Chat

Small Group Technical Office Hours

Fireside Chat

Select up to 2 topics below that you would like to cover in your breakout roundtable (week 2). The roundtable will give you an opportunity to share best practices and strategies with your breakout group. *

Architecture Approaches and Scaling Approaches

Best Mistakes You’ve Made – And What You Learned From Them

Metrics – What Are Important to Measure and Report On?

Hiring and Improving Your Management Skills

Relationship Between Product and Tech

Select your topic for group technical office hours in week 3. Once your group is finalized, we'll send you a calendar invite for your time slot. Group office hours will take place for one hour between August 17-20. Groups are kept small (up to 5 CTOs) to ensure your questions will be answered. *

If you selected 'Other', please specify:

If using AWS, add your account ID to help us prepare for office hours.

Company name *

Company website *

Full name *

Email address (work email, please!) *

LinkedIn profile *

Are you a founder / co-founder? *

Job title *

City *

Country *

State (if country is USA)

Total funding (enter a number in $Ms) *

Last funding date (enter month and year) *

Lead VC Investor (if applicable)

Startup stage *

Company size *

Industry *

Primary cloud provider *

Alicloud

AWS

Digital Ocean

GCP (Google Cloud Platform)

GSuite

Heroku

Local / on premises

Low-code / No-code (eg. Bubble, Webflow)

Microsoft Azure

Platform-as-a-service (eg. Netlify, Vercel/Zeit)

Other

None

Estimated cloud spend per month *

Who referred you to the CTO Fellowship (name of VC, accelerator, AWS Startup team, etc.)? *

Are you interested in receiving information about AWS credits and other benefits? *

Yes

No