From Founding Engineer to CTO to CEO – At the Same Startup



Posted on Thu May 28 2026 | 6:03 pm


Trisha Ballakur discusses her journey from a backend software engineer to CTO and CEO, using her startup Pointz as a case study. She explains how to implement bottom-up customer discovery to find product-market fit, effectively delegate to global contractors to reduce build times, customize open-source repos like Valhalla, and apply engineering test-case models to business development.




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