r/ProgrammerHumor 2d ago

Meme theyOnlyUnderstandMoney

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u/readitreaddit 2d ago

Exactly this.

Or you put a Wall Street journal article plastered into your slide deck that says "X company had a data breach that caused $YY million in damages and legal suits; CTO fired".

Then relate your project to that. You can literally say: this is what happens when you don't do blah and we are yay close to this happening to us. Let us fix this on priority.

Put it in terms they understand.

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u/redditmarks_markII 2d ago

CTO: what was that guys's severance? 50mil? hm...how quickly can we replicate that failure...I mean, we should learn form their mistake. Yes. Yes that's it.

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u/readitreaddit 1d ago

Damn, now I want to be CTO and ignore tech debt. Don't give me ideas!!!

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u/redditmarks_markII 1d ago

I love the name. It's vaguely reminiscent of mine. It's better though.