Stephan Schmidt

Stephan Schmidt is a CTO coach and runs Amazing CTO. He taught himself coding in a department store around 1981 because he wanted to write video games. He was the first coder in several German internet startups, founded a VC-funded startup, worked as a manager at ImmoScout and was CTO of an eBay company. Today he coaches CTOs and engineering leaders, more than 80 so far, and writes the Amazing CTO newsletter for more than 5,000 engineering leaders.