CTO In The Loop: A Leadership Fable for the AI Era - On Mentorship, Meaning, and Building with Both Code and Conscience

CTO in the Loop follows the decade-long journey of Sameer "Sam" Desai, an engineer who never intended to lead but kept stepping forward because no one else would. What begins as a scrappy Startup Weekend prototype quickly becomes a real company... and then an organism that grows faster than Sam's ability to map it.

In the early chapters, Sam learns leadership through the raw, unfiltered realities of startup life: late-night firefights, brittle MVP code, misaligned teammates, investors demand...