Signal, amid the noise.
CTO Studio is an interview series for the engineering leaders building through the AI shift. We talk with the CTOs, VPs of Engineering, product leaders, and technical founders who are deciding how this technology actually gets used. It's powered by Howdy.com and hosted by award-winning journalist Josh Rubin.
What you get out of an hour with us
There aren't enough journalists covering this space, and the few who remain cannot keep pace with how fast it moves. What fills the gap is hype, fear, and noise, with very little signal from the people actually building. CTO Studio exists to close that gap. We sit down with the engineers and leaders living the AI shift and ask them what is real.
To be clear, there is no fee and nothing we are trying to sell you. If you agree to an interview, you are doing us the favor. We learn what is changing in engineering by talking to the people in the middle of it, and in return you walk away with a few things that are genuinely difficult to get anywhere else.
The interview is a conversation, not a script. We sit down on camera for about twenty minutes and cover what matters right now: what has you excited, what concerns you, which tools you actually use, and how all of it is reshaping the way you hire, build teams, and ship. Plan on roughly an hour from start to finish, in Austin or San Francisco.
- Short clips you can actually use. Most technical leaders never make time for personal branding. We hand you professionally edited pieces, ready for LinkedIn, that present you as clearly as you think.
- A citable record of your perspective. We publish the full transcript and the complete interview, not only the highlights. As more people turn to AI tools instead of search, that record is what gets surfaced and quoted, with your name attached. A twenty-minute on-camera conversation is difficult to fake, so your perspective stands as a credible source.
- Production that holds up. Shot on camera with a professional crew and edited to broadcast standard.
- Introductions worth making. Our archive is full of CTOs, VPs of engineering, heads of product, and technical founders. If there is someone you would like to meet, we will make the connection.
You stay in control of how you are represented. We host the full conversation, we send you anything edited for social before it is published, and anything you would prefer to keep off the record stays off the record.
If you are a CTO, VP of engineering, head of product, or technical founder working through the AI shift, we would like to talk.
Josh Rubin
Josh Rubin is an award-winning journalist who spent his career chasing the story. At CNN's Political Unit, his work earned a Peabody Award, an Emmy nomination, a National Headliner Award, and multiple honors from the National Association of Black Journalists. He earned that recognition for reporting that cut through the spin to find what was actually true.
Today he brings that same journalistic eye to the people building the future of technology. As host of CTO Studio, Josh sits down with the CTOs, engineering leaders, and technical founders driving the growth of AI and asks the questions that actually matter: what has them most excited right now, what's keeping them up at night, and how these tools are really changing the way teams hire, build, and ship.
A media executive based in Austin, Josh now serves as VP of Marketing at Howdy.com, where the studio finds its guests and its audience.