Tacos And Tech Podcast

Meet America’s newest citizen, Etienne de Bruin, Founder of 7CTOs, the organization that helps CTOs grow as world class leaders!   Etienne and his wife, both South Africans, moved to San Diego from Germany in 2000. He was weighing Boston vs. San Diego and cnn.com/weather told him to make the move to sunshine. Luckily he choose the San Diego biotech scene which survived the 2000 dot com bombs whereas the Boston opportunity died immediately. Etienne takes us through the difference of doing business and working in tech in South Africa vs the U.S. South Africa does have a strong software developer culture and South African business leaders have a strong presence in building big American companies, like Elon Musk. In 2005, he co-founded Monk Development in San Diego and grew the software company all the way up until 2014 when they successfully sold the business. In 2009, he started to lift his head and say, “what’s everyone else working on?” and put energy into creating a community for software developers which ha