What does it take to become a CTO?

I thinking of starting off with a major in Computer Information Systems (database management, programming, web design, etc.) and minoring in both Math and Economics.

Would this be a good path, and is there anything that I should do afterwards like get my Master’s?

P.S. I have an interest in all of these subjects, even some Spanish if I could somehow fit it in =P.

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A few days ago

Anonymous

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CTO is a business position. It’s more important that you have an MBA than a real masters degree. There are a lot of business schools that offer a combo business / technology MBA. It sounds like your current major/minor mix is good, but make sure you get a business / project management job after graduation. If you’re too technical, the suits won’t hire you. They don’t want people who really understand the guts of the technology.

A few days ago

Crypt

You may want to look into some HR courses as well. You’d be surprised how many executives come from HR backgrounds… But yeah, it’s a business position, not a technical position. So stay with business management, economics, and that sort of thing. Obviously computer knowledge is a must have, so you can run Word and Excel and the like, but a CTO doesn’t write code or toubleshoot. He or she hires people that hire people that hire people to do that for them.

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